Fornasini, Francesca M. and Tomsick, John A. and Hong, JaeSub and Gotthelf, Eric V. and Bauer, Franz and Rahoui, Farid and Stern, Daniel and Bodaghee, Arash and Chiu, Jeng-Lun and Clavel, Maïca and Corral-Santana, Jesús and Hailey, Charles J. and Krivonos, Roman A. and Mori, Kaya and Alexander, David M. and Barret, Didier and Boggs, Steven E. and Christensen, Finn E. and Craig, William W. and Forster, Karl and Giommi, Paolo and Grefenstette, Brian W. and Harrison, Fiona A. and Hornstrup, Allan and Kitaguchi, Takao and Koglin, J. E. and Madsen, Kristin K. and Mao, Peter H. and Miyasaka, Hiromasa and Perri, Matteo and Pivovaroff, Michael J. and Puccetti, Simonetta and Rana, Vikram and Westergaard, Niels J. and Zhang, William W. (2017) 'The NuSTAR hard X-ray survey of the Norma arm region.', Astrophysical journal supplement series., 229 (2). p. 33.
Abstract
We present a catalog of hard X-ray sources in a square-degree region surveyed by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) in the direction of the Norma spiral arm. This survey has a total exposure time of 1.7 Ms, and the typical and maximum exposure depths are 50 ks and 1 Ms, respectively. In the area of deepest coverage, sensitivity limits of 5 × 10−14 and 4 × 10−14 erg s−1 cm−2 in the 3–10 and 10–20 keV bands, respectively, are reached. Twenty-eight sources are firmly detected, and 10 are detected with low significance; 8 of the 38 sources are expected to be active galactic nuclei. The three brightest sources were previously identified as a low-mass X-ray binary, high-mass X-ray binary, and pulsar wind nebula. Based on their X-ray properties and multiwavelength counterparts, we identify the likely nature of the other sources as two colliding wind binaries, three pulsar wind nebulae, a black hole binary, and a plurality of cataclysmic variables (CVs). The CV candidates in the Norma region have plasma temperatures of ≈10–20 keV, consistent with the Galactic ridge X-ray emission spectrum but lower than the temperatures of CVs near the Galactic center. This temperature difference may indicate that the Norma region has a lower fraction of intermediate polars relative to other types of CVs compared to the Galactic center. The NuSTAR logN–logS distribution in the 10–20 keV band is consistent with the distribution measured by Chandra at 2–10 keV if the average source spectrum is assumed to be a thermal model with kT ≈ 15 keV, as observed for the CV candidates.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Download PDF (2831Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa61fc |
Publisher statement: | © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
Date accepted: | 19 February 2017 |
Date deposited: | 03 July 2017 |
Date of first online publication: | 06 April 2017 |
Date first made open access: | 03 July 2017 |
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