Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998pasj...50...25o&link_type=abstract
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, v.50, p.25-30.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
41
Galaxies: Individual (Ic 342), Galaxies: Spiral, Galaxies: X-Rays, Stars: Black Hole, X-Rays: Binaries
Scientific paper
X-ray observations of the nearby starburst galaxy IC 342 with ASCA led to the detection of three bright X-ray sources, whose positions are consistent with those from the Einstein and ROSAT observations. The X-ray luminosities of the two sources exceed the Eddington limit of a 1.4MO object by two orders of magnitude for an assumed distance of 4.5 Mpc. The brightest one (source 1) among the three exhibited significant time variations on a time scale of a few hours during the ASCA observation. Thus, the size of the emission region must be smaller than about 10(14) cm. The energy spectrum of the source can be represented either by a power-law with an exponential roll-over, or by an optically thick accretion disk model with a maximum color temperature of 1.77 keV. Although the large luminosity of source 1 may be explained by a ~ 100MO black hole at 4.5 Mpc, the observed energy spectrum is too hard to be accounted for by an optically thick accretion disk around the black hole. Ifsource1 is a relativistic jet source with strong X-ray beaming, both the large luminosity and the hard X-ray spectrum can be explained.
Dotani Tadayasu
Makishima Kazuo.
Mihara Tatehiro
Mitsuda Kazuhisa
Okada Kyoko
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