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Leo局部冷云和局部热泡的新极限

The Local Leo Cold Cloud and New Limits on a Local Hot Bubble

J. E. G. Peek, Carl Heiles, Kathryn M. G. Peek, David M. Meyer, J. T. Lauroesch

摘要:

我们提出了一个多波长的本地狮子座冷云(LLCC),一个非常接近,非常冷的云在星际介质的研究。通过对恒星吸收的研究,我们发现LLCC离我们的距离在11.3秒差距到24.3秒差距之间,这使它成为已知的离我们最近的冷中性介质云,并且在当地空腔的边界之内。在21厘米HI线的云的观测表明,LLCC是非常冷的,温度范围从15 K到30 K,是最适合由两个碰撞组件组成的模型。该云团伴随着100微米的热尘埃排放,表明尘气比略低,为48 x 10^-22兆焦耳·年·sr^-1厘米^2。我们发现,LLCC是太远了,附近的复杂的本地星际云之间的碰撞产生的,但小的相对速度表明,LLCC在某种程度上与这些云。我们使用LLCC在1/4 keV X射线中进行遮蔽实验,使我们能够区分所观察到的软X射线背景的不同可能来源。我们发现,一个本地的热泡模型不能单独考虑低纬度软X射线背景,但各向同性发射太阳风电荷交换没有重现我们的数据。在一个组合的本地热泡和太阳风电荷交换的情况下,我们排除了从本地热泡发射1/4千电子伏发射率大于1.1斯诺登/ pc在3西格玛,4倍低于以前的估计。这一结果极大地改变了我们对本地星际介质的看法。

英文摘要:

We present a multi-wavelength study of the local Leo cold cloud (LLCC), a very nearby, very cold cloud in the interstellar medium. Through stellar absorption studies we find that the LLCC is between 11.3 pc and 24.3 pc away, making it the closest known cold neutral medium cloud and well within the boundaries of the local cavity. Observations of the cloud in the 21-cm HI line reveal that the LLCC is very cold, with temperatures ranging from 15 K to 30 K, and is best fit with a model composed of two colliding components. The cloud has associated 100 micron thermal dust emission, pointing to a somewhat low dust-to-gas ratio of 48 x 10^-22 MJy sr^-1 cm^2. We find that the LLCC is too far away to be generated by the collision among the nearby complex of local interstellar clouds, but that the small relative velocities indicate that the LLCC is somehow related to these clouds. We use the LLCC to conduct a shadowing experiment in 1/4 keV X-rays, allowing us to differentiate between different possible origins for the observed soft X-ray background. We find that a local hot bubble model alone cannot account for the low-latitude soft X-ray background, but that isotropic emission from solar wind charge exchange does reproduce our data. In a combined local hot bubble and solar wind charge exchange scenario, we rule out emission from a local hot bubble with an 1/4 keV emissivity greater than 1.1 Snowdens / pc at 3 sigma, 4 times lower than previous estimates. This result dramatically changes our perspective on our local interstellar medium.

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