Properties of the Diffuse X-ray Background toward MBM20 with Suzaku
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2009-11-24 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
We used Suzaku observations of the molecular cloud MBM20 and a low neutral hydrogen column density region nearby to separate and characterize the foreground and background diffuse X-ray emission. A comparison with a previous observation of the same regions with XMM-Newton indicates a significant change in the foreground flux which is attributed to Solar Wind Charge eXchange (SWCX). The data have also been compared with previous results from similar "shadow" experiments and with a SWCX model to characterize its O VII and O VIII emission.
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@article{arxiv.0910.3971,
title = {Properties of the Diffuse X-ray Background toward MBM20 with Suzaku},
author = {A. Gupta and M. Galeazzi and D. Koutroumpa and R. Smith and R. Lallement},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3971},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in ApJ; 29 pages, 7 figures