Search for Hot Gas in the Local Group with ASCA

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2002-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0205197v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21pages, 6 figures, paper will be published to PASJ Vol.54, No.3

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An X-ray study was made to examine whether some part of the soft X-ray background is coming from hot gas in the Local Group. For this purpose, four consecutive pointings were made with ASCA toward a sky region between M 31 and M 33, which is close to the direction of the center of the Local Group. By comparing the X-ray surface brightness in this sky direction with that in another blank sky region near the north equatorial pole, an upper limit on any soft excess X-ray background was determined to be 2.8$\times10^{-9}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ sr$^{-1}$ with a 90% confidence level statistical error. Assuming an optically thin thermal bremsstrahlung energy spectrum (Raymond-Smith model) for a temperature of 1 keV and a $\beta$-model electron density distribution for a core radius of 100 kpc for the X-ray halo, the upper limit of the central plasma density was obtained to be 1.3$\times10^{-4}$ cm$^{-3}$. The plasma column density is too low to contribute significantly to the observed quadrupole anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background.

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