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A High Resolution X-ray spectrum of the LINER Galaxy M81 | | M.J. Page
; A.A. Breeveld
; R. Soria
; K. Wu
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22 Mar 2002 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | UCL), A.A. Breeveld (UCL), R. Soria (UCL), K. Wu (UCL | | Abstract: | We present the soft X-ray spectrum of the LINER galaxy M81 from a long observation with the XMM-Newton RGS. As well as continuum emission from the active nucleus, the spectrum shows emission lines from multi temperature collisionally ionized gas. The emission lines are significantly broader than the RGS point-source spectral resolution, and in the cross dispersion direction the emission lines are detected adjacent to, as well as coincident with, the active nucleus. This implies that they originate in a region of more than an arcminute (~ 1 kpc) spatial extent. A good fit to the whole RGS spectrum can be found using a model consisting of an absorbed power law from the active nucleus and a 3 temperature thermal plasma. Two of the thermal plasma components have temperatures of 0.18+-0.04 keV and 0.64+-0.04 keV, characteristic of the hot interstellar medium produced by supernovae; the combined luminosity of these two plasma components accounts for all the unresolved bulge X-ray emission seen in the Chandra observation by Tennant et al (2001). The third component has a higher temperature (~1.7 keV) and we propose X-ray binaries in the bulge of M81 as the most likely source of this emission. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0203396 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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