Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-02-24
Astrophys.J. 644 (2006) 167-173
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/503551
A soft X-ray excess has been claimed to exist in and around a number of galaxy clusters and this emission has been attributed to the warm-hot intergalactic medium that may constitute most of the baryons in the local universe. We have re-examined a study of the XMM-Newton observations on this topic by Kaastra et al. (2003) and find that the X-ray excess (or deficit) depends upon Galactic latitude and appears to be most closely related to the surface brightness of the 1/4 keV emission, which is largely due to emission from the Local hot bubble and the halo of the Milky Way. We suggest that the presence of the soft X-ray excess is due to incorrect subtraction of the soft X-ray background. An analysis is performed where we choose a 1/4 keV background that is similar to the background near the cluster (and for similar HI column). We find that the soft X-ray excess largely disappears using our background subtraction and conclude that these soft X-ray excesses are not associated with the target clusters. We also show that the detections of "redshifted" O VII lines claimed by Kaastra et al. (2003) are correlated with solar system charge exchange emission suggesting that they are not extragalactic either.
Bregman Joel N.
Lloyd-Davies Ed J.
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