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Probing the gas content of the dwarf galaxy NGC 3109 with background X-ray sources | | P. Kahabka T.H. Puzia
; W. Pietsch
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24 May 2000 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | University of Bonn) T.H. Puzia (University of Bonn), W. Pietsch (MPE | | Abstract: | We established the catalog of X-ray point sources in the field of the Magellanic-type spiral galaxy NGC 3109 (DDO 236) from two ROSAT PSPC observations. Of the 91 X-ray sources 26 are contained within the HI extent of NGC 3109 as derived by Jobin & Carignan (1990) with the VLA. For 10 of these we can determine accurate hardness ratios delta HR2<=0.2. We find 3 candidate AGN, 2 candidate X-ray binaries and one source which may belong to either class. We also find 2 candidate foreground stars. In a field of 8’x8’ observed with the NTT in the I-band and centered on the nucleus of NGC 3109 we determine candidate optical counterparts in the X-ray error circle of 7 ROSAT PSPC sources. We apply a spectral fit to the ROSAT spectrum of the X-ray brightest absorbed candidate AGN behind NGC 3109, RX J1003.2-2607. Assuming a galactic foreground hydrogen column density of 4.3 10^20 cm^-2 we derive from the X-ray spectral fit, assuming reduced metallicities (~0.2 solar), a hydrogen column density due to NGC 3109 of 11(+7,-5) 10^20 cm^-2. This value is slightly larger than the hydrogen column density derived from the 21-cm observations of ~8 10^20 cm^-2. We estimate that the molecular mass fraction of the gas is not larger than ~60%. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0005482 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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