Diffuse Hard X-ray Sources Discovered with the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey

Details Diffuse Hard X-ray Sources Discovered with the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey Diffuse Hard X-ray Sources Discovered with the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey

2003-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301515v1

Astrophys.J. 589 (2003) 253-260

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

17 pages, 9 figures; to appear in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/374354

We found diffuse hard X-ray sources, G11.0+0.0, G25.5+0.0, and G26.6-0.1 in the ASCA Galactic plane survey data. The X-ray spectra are featureless with no emission line, and are fitted with both models of a thin thermal plasma in non-equilibrium ionization and a power-law function. The source distances are estimated to be 1-8 kpc, using the best-fit NH values on the assumption that the mean density in the line of sight is 1 H cm^-3. The source sizes and luminosities are then 4.5-27 pc and (0.8-23)x10^33 ergs/s. Although the source sizes are typical to supernova remnants (SNR) with young to intermediate ages, the X-ray luminosity, plasma temperature, and weak emission lines in the spectra are all unusual. This suggests that these objects are either shell-like SNRs dominated by X-ray synchrotron emission, like SN 1006, or, alternatively, plerionic SNRs. The total number of these classes of SNRs in our Galaxy is also estimated.

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