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银河系中心3.5 keV谱线的发现和跨越天文目标谱线起源的批判性研究

Discovery of a 3.5 keV line in the Galactic Center and a Critical Look at the Origin of the Line Across Astronomical Targets

Tesla E. Jeltema, Stefano Profumo

摘要:

我们研究了3.5keV附近的过量X射线线发射,包括对银河系中心XMM-牛顿观测的新分析和对M~31和星系团数据的重新分析。在任何情况下,我们都找不到过量的确凿证据。在银河系中心的情况下,我们表明,已知的等离子体线,特别是包括K XVIII线在3.48和3.52千电子伏,提供了一个令人满意的拟合XMM数据。我们估计的预期通量的K XVIII线,并发现测得的线通量属于正方形的预测范围内的亮度的基础上,其他良好的测量线的能量范围内的利益和详细的多温度等离子体模型。然后,我们重新评估的证据,从星系团的过量发射,允许系统的不确定性,从已知的等离子体线和额外的不确定性,由于潜在的变化,不同元素的丰度的预期通量。我们发现,没有结论性的过量线发射可以主张在英仙座或其他集群考虑系统的不确定性。我们还重新分析了M~31的XMM数据,发现在3.5 keV附近没有统计上显著的线发射,其水平大于1 sigma。最后,我们分析了第谷超新星遗迹,它显示出类似的等离子体特征,上述来源,但没有主机任何显着的暗物质。我们检测到一个3.55千电子伏的线从第谷,这表明可能的系统性影响弱线的通量测定,或相对元素丰度与理论预期有很大不同。

英文摘要:

We examine the claimed excess X-ray line emission near 3.5 keV including both a new analysis of XMM-Newton observations of the Milky Way center and a reanalysis of the data on M~31 and clusters. In no case do we find conclusive evidence for an excess. In the case of the Galactic center we show that known plasma lines, including in particular K XVIII lines at 3.48 and 3.52 keV, provide a satisfactory fit to the XMM data. We estimate the expected flux of the K XVIII lines and find that the measured line flux falls squarely within the predicted range based on the brightness of other well-measured lines in the energy range of interest and on detailed multi-temperature plasma models. We then re-assess the evidence for excess emission from clusters of galaxies, allowing for systematic uncertainty in the expected flux from known plasma lines and additional uncertainty due to potential variation in the abundances of different elements. We find that no conclusive excess line emission can be advocated when considering systematic uncertainties in Perseus or in other clusters. We also re-analyze the XMM data for M~31 and find no statistically significant line emission near 3.5 keV to a level greater than one sigma. Finally, we analyze the Tycho supernova remnant, which shows similar plasma features to the sources above, but does not host any significant dark matter. We detect a 3.55 keV line from Tycho, which points to possible systematic effects in the flux determination of weak lines, or to relative elemental abundances vastly different from theoretical expectations.

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