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ULX与NGC 4517 ULX1的光谱模型比较

Comparing Spectral Models for ULXs with NGC 4517 ULX1

D. J. Walton, J. C. Gladstone, T. P. Roberts, A. C. Fabian, M. D. Caballero-Garcia, C. Done, M. J. Middleton

摘要:

我们提出了以前未经分析的高质量的XMM牛顿光谱的超明亮的X射线源候选人在NGC 4517。与其他高质量ULX光谱一样,在约6 keV处观察到光谱的下降。为了进行直接比较,应用了最近对该特征的圆盘反射和康普顿化解释,并且发现它们提供了当前数据的统计等效表示。我们发现,反射模型需要的吸积盘有一个高度超太阳铁丰度,而康普顿模型需要低温康普顿电子,并为日冕光学厚。这些物理要求进行了详细讨论,并强调物理动机的情况下,每个模型可以被认为是一个可行的解释所观察到的排放。通过将我们对这两种解释的考虑扩展到高能量,我们证明了在~10 keV以上能量的ULX观测在试图区分它们时应该是非常有用的。在目前的仪器条件下,只能对M82 X-1进行这些观测,但未来的高角分辨率硬X射线成像光谱仪,如将在Astro-H上飞行的硬X射线成像系统,应该能很好地解决这个问题。

英文摘要:

We present the previously unanalysed high quality XMM-Newton spectrum of an ultraluminous X-ray source candidate in NGC 4517. As with other high quality ULX spectra, a downturn in the spectrum is observed at ~6 keV. Both of the recent disc reflection and Comptonisation interpretations of this feature are applied, in order to present a direct comparison, and are found to provide statistically equivalent representations of the current data. We find that the reflection model requires the accretion disc to have a highly super-solar iron abundance, while the Comptonisation model requires low temperature Comptonising electrons, and for the corona to be optically thick. These physical requirements are discussed in detail, and physically motivated scenarios are highlighted in which each model can be considered a viable explanation for the observed emission. By extending our consideration of these two interpretations to high energies, we demonstrate that observations of ULXs at energies above ~10 keV should be extremely useful when attempting to distinguish between them. With current instrumentation, it is only viable to perform these observations for M82 X-1, but future high angular resolution hard X-ray imaging spectrometers, such as the Hard X-ray Imaging System due to fly on Astro-H, should go a long way to resolving this issue.

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