Statistical Analysis of Point-like Sources in Chandra Galactic Center Survey

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2006-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606478v1

Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 81-90 (2007)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Chinese Journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1088/1009-9271/7/1/05

{\it Chandra} Galactic Center Survey detected $\sim 800$ X-ray point-like sources in the $2^{\circ} \times 0.8^{\circ}$ sky region around the Galactic Center. In this paper, we study the spatial and luminosity distributions of these sources according to their spectral properties. Fourteen bright sources detected are used to fit jointly an absorbed power-law model, from which the power-law photon index is determined to be $\sim$2.5. Assuming that all other sources have the same power-law form, the relation between hardness ratio and HI column density $N_H$ is used to estimate the $N_H$ values for all sources. Monte Carlo simulations show that these sources are more likely concentrated in the Galactic center region, rather than distributed throughout the Galactic disk. We also find that the luminosities of the sources are positively correlated with their HI column densities, i.e. a more luminous source has a higher HI column density. From this relation, we suggest that the X-ray luminosity comes from the interaction between an isolated old neutron star and interstellar medium (mainly dense molecular clouds). Using the standard Bondi accretion theory and the statistical information of molecular clouds in the Galactic center, we confirm this positive correlation and calculate the luminosity range in this scenario, which is consistent with the observation ($10^{32}\sim 10^{35}$ ergs s$^{-1}$).

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