Discovery of the compact X-ray source inside the Cygnus Loop

Details Discovery of the compact X-ray source inside the Cygnus Loop Discovery of the compact X-ray source inside the Cygnus Loop

1998-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807270v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 17 pages, 3 figure

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We detected an X-ray compact source inside the Cygnus Loop during the observation project of the whole Cygnus Loop with the ASCA GIS. The source intensity is 0.11 c s$^{-1}$ for GIS and 0.15 c s$^{-1}$ for SIS, which is the strongest in the ASCA band. The X-ray spectra are well fitted by a power law spectrum of a photon index of \error{-2.1}{0.1} with neutral H column of (\error{3.1}{0.6})${\rm \times 10^{21} cm^{-2}}$. Taking into account the interstellar absorption feature, this source is X-ray bright mainly above 1 keV suggesting either an AGN or a rotating neutron star. So far, we did not detect intensity variation nor coherent pulsation mainly due to the limited observation time. There are several optical bright stellar objects within the error region of the X-ray image. We carried out the optical spectroscopy for the brightest source (V=+12.6) and found it to be a G star. The follow up deep observation both in optical and in X-ray wavelengths are strongly required.

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