On the Contribution of Unresolved Galactic Stars to the Diffuse Soft X-ray Background

Details On the Contribution of Unresolved Galactic Stars to the Diffuse Soft X-ray Background On the Contribution of Unresolved Galactic Stars to the Diffuse Soft X-ray Background

2001-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102206v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/321421

Using stellar luminosity functions derived from ROSAT data, the contributions of Galactic stars to the diffuse X-ray background are calculated for ROSAT PSPC energy bands. The model follows that of Guillout et al. (1996), but uses ROSAT rather than {\it Einstein} data to determine the intrinsic luminosity distributions. The model adequately predicts the numbers of stellar sources observed in deep ROSAT surveys. The contribution of unresolved stellar sources to the ROSAT All-Sky Survey at the Galactic poles is 6.85, 4.76, and 4.91 $\times$ counts s$^{-1}$ arcmin$^{-2}$ in bands R12 (1/4 keV), R45(3/4 keV), and R67(1.5 keV), respectively, which is equivalent to 4.66, 31.3 and 26.9 $\times10^{-14}$ ergs cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ deg$^{-2}$.

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