Table · dataset · 2019
X-ray spectral analysis of 107 MW sight lines
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The formation mechanism of the hot gaseous halo associated with the Milky Way is still under debate.
Description
We report new observational constraints on the gaseous halo using 107 lines of sight of the Suzaku X-ray observations at 75{deg}<l<285{deg} and |b|>15{deg} with a total exposure of 6.4Ms. The gaseous halo spectra are represented by a single-temperature plasma model in collisional ionization equilibrium.
The median temperature of the observed fields is 0.26keV (3.0x10^6^K) with a typical fluctuation of ~30%. The emission measure varies by an order of magnitude and marginally correlates with the Galactic latitude. Despite the large scatter of the data, the emission measure distribution is roughly reproduced by a disk-like density distribution with a scale length of ~7kpc, a scale height of ~2kpc, and a total mass of ~5x10^7^M_{sun}_.
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In addition, we found that a spherical hot gas with the {beta}-model profile hardly contributes to the observed X-rays but that its total mass might reach >~10^9^M_{sun}_. Combined with indirect evidence of an extended gaseous halo from other observations, the hot gaseous halo likely consists of a dense disk-like component and a rarefied spherical component; the X-ray emissions primarily come from the former, but the mass is dominated by the latter.
The disk-like component likely originates from stellar feedback in the Galactic disk due to the low scale height and the large scatter of the emission measures. The median [O/Fe] of ~0.25 shows the contribution of the core-collapse supernovae and supports the stellar feedback origin.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/862/34 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2018ApJ...862...34N ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ApJ...862...34N ↗
publication · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apj/862/34 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- X-Ray
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/apj/862/34 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:x-ray | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |