The ROSAT X-ray Background Dipole

Details The ROSAT X-ray Background Dipole The ROSAT X-ray Background Dipole

1998-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9812391v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02519.x

We estimate the dipole of the diffuse 1.5 keV X-ray background from the ROSAT all-sky survey map of Snowden et al (1995). We first subtract the diffuse Galactic emission by fitting to the data an exponential scale height, finite radius, disk model. We further exclude regions of low galactic latitudes, of local X-ray emission (eg the North Polar Spur) and model them using two different methods. We find that the ROSAT X-ray background (XRB) dipole points towards $(l,b) ~ (288, 25) \pm 19 degrees within 30 degrees of the CMB dipole. Its direction is also in good agreement with the HEAO1 X-ray dipole at harder energies. The normalised amplitude of the ROSAT XRB dipole is about 1.7 per cent. Subtracting from the ROSAT map the expected X-ray background dipole due to the reflex motion of the observer with respect to the cosmic rest frame (Compton-Geting effect) we find the large-scale dipole of the X-ray emitting extragalactic sources having an amplitude 90% of the total XRB, in general agreement with the predictions of Lahav et al (1997). We finally estimate that the Virgo cluster is responsible for about 20 per cent of the total measured XRB dipole amplitude.

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