The X-ray halo of the Local Group and its implications for microwave and soft X-ray background

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1996-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9602061v1

Astrophys.J. 461 (1996) L33-L36

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages. uuencoded, gzipped tar file including LaTeX text and 4 postcript figures. ApJ(Letters) in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/310003

Since recent X-ray observations have revealed that most clusters of galaxies are surrounded by an X-ray emitting gaseous halo, it is reasonable to expect that the Local Group of galaxies has its own X-ray halo. We show that such a halo, with temperature $\sim 1$keV and column density $\sim O(10^{21}) {\rm cm}^{-2}$, is a possible source for the excess low-energy component in the X-ray background. The halo should also generate temperature anisotropies in the microwave background via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. Assuming an isothermal spherical halo with the above temperature and density, the amplitude of the induced quadrupole turns out to be comparable to the COBE data without violating the upper limit on the $y$-parameter. The induced dipole is negligible compared to the peculiar velocity of the Local Group, and multipoles higher than quadrupole are generally much smaller than the observed ones. However non-sphericity and/or clumpiness of the halo will produce a stronger effect. Therefore the gaseous halo of the Local Group, if it exists, will affect the estimate of the primordial spectral index $n$ and the amplitude of the density fluctuations deduced from the {\sl COBE} data.

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