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作为银河系X射线脊发射源的离散源

Discrete sources as the origin of the Galactic X-ray ridge emission

Revnivtsev M., Sazonov S., Churazov E., Forman W., Vikhlinin A., Sunyaev R.

摘要:

大约25年前,人们发现了一个未被解析的X射线辉光(能量超过几千电子伏),并发现它与银河系盘--银河系脊X射线发射相吻合。该发射具有1 e8 K光学薄热等离子体的光谱特性,在6.7 keV处具有突出的铁发射线。然而,银河系盘的引力阱太浅,无法限制如此热的星际介质;相反,它会以每秒几千公里的速度流走,超过气体中的声速。为了补充能量损失,需要10^{43} erg/s的能量源,超过银河系中所有可能的能量源的数量级。另一种可能是,热等离子体与众多的微弱源相结合,这一点得到了最近观察到的X射线和近红外表面亮度分布(后者跟踪银河系恒星分布)的相似性的支持。在这里,我们报告说,在6-7千电子伏的能量,超过80%的看似弥漫的X射线发射被分解成离散的来源,可能是吸积白矮星和日冕活动的恒星。

英文摘要:

An unresolved X-ray glow (at energies above a few kiloelectronvolts) was discovered about 25 years ago and found to be coincident with the Galactic disk -the Galactic ridge X-ray emission. This emission has a spectrum characteristic of a 1e8 K optically thin thermal plasma, with a prominent iron emission line at 6.7 keV. The gravitational well of the Galactic disk, however, is far too shallow to confine such a hot interstellar medium; instead, it would flow away at a velocity of a few thousand kilometres per second, exceeding the speed of sound in gas. To replenish the energy losses requires a source of 10^{43} erg/s, exceeding by orders of magnitude all plausible energy sources in the Milky Way. An alternative is that the hot plasma is bound to a multitude of faint sources, which is supported by the recently observed similarities in the X-ray and near-infrared surface brightness distributions (the latter traces the Galactic stellar distribution). Here we report that at energies of 6-7 keV, more than 80 per cent of the seemingly diffuse X-ray emission is resolved into discrete sources, probably accreting white dwarfs and coronally active stars.

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