Thermal and Non-thermal X-Rays from the LMC Super Bubble 30 Dor C

Details Thermal and Non-thermal X-Rays from the LMC Super Bubble 30 Dor C Thermal and Non-thermal X-Rays from the LMC Super Bubble 30 Dor C

2003-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310713v1

Astrophys.J. 602 (2004) 257-263

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ, the paper with full resolution images in http://www-cr.scphys.kyoto-u.

Scientific paper

10.1086/380957

We report on the discovery of thermal and non-thermal X-rays from the shells of the super bubble (SB) 30 Dor C in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The X-ray morphology is a nearly circular shell with a radius of about 40 pc, which is bright on the northern and western sides. The spectra of the shells are different from region to region. The southern shell shows clear emission lines, and is well fitted with a model of a thin-thermal plasma (kT = 0.21keV) in non-equilibrium ionization (NEI) plus a power-law component. This thermal plasma is located inside of the H alpha emission, which is the outer edge of the shell of the SB. The northern and western sides of the SB are dim in H alpha emission, but are bright in non-thermal (power-law) X-rays with a photon index of 2.1-2.9. The non-thermal X-ray shell traces the outer boundary of the radio shell. These features of thin-thermal and non-thermal X-rays are similar to those of SN 1006, a prototype of synchrotron X-ray shell, but the non-thermal component of 30 Dor C is about ten-times brighter than that of SN 1006. 30 Dor C is the first candidate of an extragalactic SB, in which energetic electrons are accelerating in the shell. The age is much older than that of SN 1006, and hence the particle acceleration time in this SB may be longer than those in normal shell-like SNRs. We found point-like sources associated with some of tight star clusters. The X-ray luminosity and spectrum are consistent with those of young clusters of massive stars. Point-like sources with non-thermal spectra are also found in the SB. These may be background objects (AGNs) or stellar remnants (neutron stars or black holes).

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