High resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy of M 87 with the reflection grating spectrometers on XMM-Newton
High resolution soft X-ray spectroscopy of M 87 with the reflection grating spectrometers on XMM-Newton
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使用 XMM-Newton 上的反射光栅光谱仪对 M 87 进行高分辨率软 X 射线光谱分析
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2002
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D. Worrall
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I. Sakelliou;J. Peterson;T. Tamura;F. Paerels;J. Kaastra;E. Belsole;H. Böhringer;G. Branduardi‐Raymont;C. Ferrigno;J. Herder;J. Kennea;R. Mushotzky;W. T. Vestrand;D. Worrall
We present high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic observations of M 87 with the Reflection Grating Spectrometers on XMM-Newton . We detect strong K-shell line emission from N, O, Ne, Mg, some emission from He-like Si, a fully resolved set of Fe L-shell emission spectra, and some emission from C. The angular intensity distributions of the strong emission lines are detectably resolved on scales $(15{-}160) arcsec$. The gas in the inner arcmin of M 87 has a multi-phase structure, as indicated by the similarity of the emission line profiles of Fe L shell ions with widely separated ionization potentials. The global Fe L spectrum is approximately consistent with an isothermal plasma at $kT_{
m e} sim 1.8$ keV, in addition to a component with a temperature distribution appropriate to an isobaric cooling flow, but with a minimum temperature cutoff of $kT_{
m min} approx 600$ eV. The behaviour of this cooling-flow component is qualitatively similar to what is seen in other cooling flow clusters. Finally, we do not find any strong evidence for a spatial variation in abundances due to resonance scattering redistribution in the inner arcminute of the core.