ROSAT observations of the dwarf starforming galaxy Holmerg II (UGC 4305)

Details ROSAT observations of the dwarf starforming galaxy Holmerg II (UGC 4305) ROSAT observations of the dwarf starforming galaxy Holmerg II (UGC 4305)

1999-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9903355v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02626.x

We present ROSAT PSPC and HRI observations of the dwarf irregular galaxy Holmberg II (UGC4305). This is one of the most luminous dwarf galaxies (Lx~ 10^{40} erg s^{-1} cm^{-2}) detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. The X-ray emission comes from a single unresolved point source, coincident with a large HII region which emits intense radio emission. The source is variable on both year and day timescales, clearly favouring accretion into a compact object rather than a supernova remnant or a superbubble interpretation for the origin of the X-ray emission. However, its X-ray spectrum is well-fit by a a Raymond-Smith spectrum with kT~0.8 keV, lower than the temperature of X-ray binaries in nearby spiral galaxies.

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