Soft band X/K luminosity ratios in late-type galaxies and constraints on the population of supersoft X-ray sources

Details Soft band X/K luminosity ratios in late-type galaxies and constraints on the population of supersoft X-ray sources Soft band X/K luminosity ratios in late-type galaxies and constraints on the population of supersoft X-ray sources

2010-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/1009.3475v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

10 pages, 2 tables, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, minor changes

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We study X-ray to K-band luminosity ratios (L_X/L_K) of late-type galaxies in the 0.3-0.7 keV energy range. From the Chandra archive, we selected nine spiral and three irregular galaxies with point source detection sensitivity better than 5 x 10^36 erg/s in order to minimize the contribution of unresolved X-ray binaries. In late-type galaxies cold gas and dust may cause significant interstellar absorption, therefore we also demanded the existence of publicly available HI maps. The obtained L_X/L_K ratios vary between (5.4-68) x 10^27 erg/s/L_K,sun exceeding by factor of 2-20 the values obtained for gas-poor early-type galaxies. Based on these results we constrain the role of supersoft X-ray sources as progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). For majority of galaxies the upper limits range from ~3% to ~15% of the SN Ia frequency inferred from K-band luminosity, but for a few of them no meaningful constraints can be placed. On a more detailed level, we study individual structural components of spiral galaxies: bulge and disk, and, for grand design spiral galaxies, arm and interarm regions.

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