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Limits on Hot Galactic Halo Gas from X-ray Absorption Lines

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Yao, Yangsen; Nowak, Michael A.; Wang, Q. D.; Schulz, Norbert S.; Canizares, Claude R.
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Abstract
Although the existence of large-scale hot gaseous halos around massive disk galaxies has been theorized for a long time, there is yet very little observational evidence. We report the Chandra and XMM-Newton grating spectral detection of O VII and Ne IX Kα absorption lines along the sight line of 4U 1957+11. The line absorption is consistent with the interstellar medium in origin. Attributing these line absorptions to the hot gas associated with the Galactic disk, we search for the gaseous halo around the Milky Way by comparing this sight line with more distant ones (toward the X-ray binary LMC X-3 and the active galactic nucleus Mrk 421). We find that all the line absorptions along the LMC X-3 and Mrk 421 sight lines are attributable to the hot gas in a thick Galactic disk, as traced by the absorption lines in the spectra of 4U 1957+11 after a Galactic latitude-dependent correction. We constrain the O VII column density through the halo to be N[subscript O VII] < 5 × 10[superscript 15] cm[superscript −2] (95% confidence limit) and conclude that the hot gas contribution to the metal line absorptions, if existing, is negligible.
Date issued
2007-12
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71912
Department
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Journal
Astrophysical Journal. Letters
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Citation
Yao, Y. et al. “Limits on Hot Galactic Halo Gas from X-Ray Absorption Lines.” The Astrophysical Journal 672.1 (2008): L21–L24.
Version: Author's final manuscript
ISSN
2041-8213
2041-8205

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