Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-05-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20pages
Scientific paper
The edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4565 was observed for $\sim$ 35 ks with ASCA in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. The X-ray emission was dominated by two bright sources, which can be identified with two point-like X-ray sources seen in the ROSAT HRI image. The observed 0.5-10 keV fluxes of these sources, $1.7 \times 10^{-12} erg/s cm^{-2}$ and $0.7 \times 10^{-12}erg/s cm^{-2}$, %$1.66 \times 10^{-12} erg/s cm^{-2}$ %$0.66 \times 10^{-12} erg/s cm^{-2}$ imply bolometric luminosities of $1.0\times 10^{40} erg/s$ and $4 \times 10^{39} erg/s$, respectively. They exhibit similar spectra, which can be explained by emission from optically thick accretion disks with the inner disk temperature of 1.4-1.6 keV. One of them, coincident in position with the nucleus, shows too low absorption to be the active nucleus seen through the galaxy disk. Their spectra and high luminosities suggest that they are both mass accreting black hole binaries. However the black-hole mass required by the Eddington limit is rather high ($\geq 50 M_{\odot}$), and the observed disk temperature is too high to be compatible with the high black-hole mass. Several attempts are made to solve these problesms.
Kubota Aya
Makishima Kazuo.
Mizuno Tsunefumi
Ohnishi Tomohisa
Tashiro Makoto
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