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来自球状星团Terzan 5的漫射X射线发射的Chandra探测

Chandra detection of diffuse X-ray emission from the globular cluster Terzan 5

P. Eger, W. Domainko, A. -C. Clapson

摘要:

泰山5,一个球状星团(GC)突出的质量和人口的紧凑型物体,寻找弥漫的X射线发射,提出了几个模型。我们分析了钱德拉天文台对泰山5号的观测数据,以寻找GC半质量半径之外的扩散X射线发射。我们从数据中删除了检测到的点源,以提取Terzan 5周围漫射区域的光谱。银河系背景辐射是由一个2-温度的热分量,这是典型的银河系漫发射模拟。我们检测到显着的扩散过量发射粒子的背景水平以上,从整个视野。表面亮度似乎在GC中心达到峰值,并向外平滑下降。在减去粒子和银河背景之后,半质量半径和3'之间的漫发射的过量光谱可以用幂律模型来描述,其中光子指数$Γ$ = 0.9 $\pm$ 0.5,在1- 7 keV波段的表面通量F $_X$ =(1.17 $\pm$ 0.16)10 $^{-7}$ cm $^{-1}$ $^{-2}$ sr $^{-1}$。我们估计未分辨点源对观测到的过量的贡献可以忽略不计。观测结果表明,纯粹的热排放源比非热排放源的可能性要小。然而,从简单的建模,我们无法确定一个明确的首选方案。

英文摘要:

Terzan 5, a globular cluster (GC) prominent in mass and population of compact objects, is searched for diffuse X-ray emission, as proposed by several models. We analyzed the data of an archival Chandra observation of Terzan 5 to search for extended diffuse X-ray emission outside the half-mass radius of the GC. We removed detected point sources from the data to extract spectra from diffuse regions around Terzan 5. The Galactic background emission was modeled by a 2-temperature thermal component, which is typical for Galactic diffuse emission. We detected significant diffuse excess emission above the particle background level from the whole field-of-view. The surface brightness appears to be peaked at the GC center and decreases smoothly outwards. After the subtraction of particle and Galactic background, the excess spectrum of the diffuse emission between the half-mass radius and 3' can be described by a power-law model with photon index $Γ$ = 0.9$\pm$0.5 and a surface flux of F$_X$ = (1.17$\pm$0.16) 10$^{-7}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$ in the 1--7 keV band. We estimated the contribution from unresolved point sources to the observed excess to be negligible. The observations suggest that a purely thermal origin of the emission is less likely than a non-thermal scenario. However, from simple modeling we cannot identify a clearly preferred scenario.

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