Suzaku Observations of the Local and Distant Hot ISM

Details Suzaku Observations of the Local and Distant Hot ISM Suzaku Observations of the Local and Distant Hot ISM

2006-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609832v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by PASJ

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Suzaku observed the molecular cloud MBM12 and a blank field less than 3 degrees away to separate the local and distant components of the diffuse soft X-ray background. Towards MBM12, a local (D< 275 pc) O VII emission line was clearly detected with an intensity of 3.5 ph cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1}$ (or line units, LU), and the O VIII flux was <0.34 LU. The origin of this O VII emission could be hot gas in the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), charge exchange between oxygen ions in the solar wind (SWCX) and geocoronal or interplanetary material, or a combination of the two. If entirely from the LHB, the implied temperature and emission measure would predict 1/4 keV emission in excess of observations. There is no evidence in the X-ray light curve or solar wind data for a significant contribution from geocoronal SWCX. In any case, the observed O VII flux represents an upper limit to both the LHB emission and interplanetary SWCX in this direction. The off-cloud observation was performed immediately following the on-cloud. The net off-cloud O VII and O VIII intensities were (respectively) 2.34\pm0.33 and 0.77\pm0.16 LU, after subtracting the on-cloud foreground emission. Assuming the LHB and SWCX components did not change, these increases can be attributed to more distant Galactic disk, halo, or extragalactic emission. If the distant O VII and O VIII emission is from a thermal plasma in collisional equilibrium beyond the Galactic disk, a temperature of (2.1\pm0.1)\times10^6 K with an emission measure of (4\pm0.6)\times10^-3} cm^{-6}pc is inferred.

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