Soft X-ray properties of Ultraluminous IRAS Galaxies
Abstract
A sample of 323 Ultraluminous IRAS galaxies (ULIRGs) has been correlated with the ROSAT All-Sky Survey and ROSAT public pointed observations. 22 objects are detected in ROSAT survey observations, and 6 ULIRGs are detected in addition in ROSAT public pointed observations. The detection is based on a visual inspection of the X-ray contour maps overlaid on optical images of ULIRGs taken from the Digitized Sky Survey. Simple power law fits were used to compute the absorption-corrected fluxes of the ROSAT detected ULIRGs. The ratio of the soft X-ray flux to the far-infrared luminosity is used to estimate the contribution from starburst and AGN emitting processes. These results are compared with the ISO SWS ULIRG diagnostic diagram.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9904191,
title = {Soft X-ray properties of Ultraluminous IRAS Galaxies},
author = {Th. Boller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9904191},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Contribution to the Ringberg ULIRG Workshop, 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. To be published in Astrophysic and Space Science