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The X-Ray Emission of a Clumpy Irregular Galaxy from Thousands of Supernova Remnants?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

D. S. Heeschen  and
J. Heidmann
D. S. Heeschen
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory Charlottesville, VA, USA
J. Heidmann
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris Meudon, France

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Clumpy irregular galaxies contain 5–10 “clumps” which are hyperactive HII complexes each equivalent to 100 giant HII regions of the 30 Doradus type (Heidmann 1982). We observed one of them, Mkn 325 (= NGC 7673), with the Einstein IPC in Dec. 1980 (seq.no 10201) for 3,200 s. The reduction was made kindly by D.E. Harris. The source was localized at 23h 25m 12.2s, + 23° 18′ 25″ (1950) in agreement with the optical position, at a quite weak level (14 counts in the 1.4–2.9 kev range). Thus we could not get valuable spectral information, only that the spectrum is rather not soft. Correction for galactic absorption NH = 5 ×1020 at.cm−2 (Heyles 1975) is applied. Fits of power law spectra happen to all go through the point with flux density 4.5 ×10−5 mJy at 3.0 ×1017 Hz (1.24 kev) and they yield a flux (1.1 ± 0.3) x10−13 erg cm−2 s−1 inside 1–3 kev and an X-luminosity (2.2 ± 0.3)×1041 erg s−1 inside 0.5–4.5 kev, for a distance 49 Mpc.

Type
VI. Supernova Remnants in Other Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 101: Supernova Remnants and Their X-Ray Emission , 1983 , pp. 591 - 595
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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