期刊
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 584, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527634
关键词
atomic processes; line: identification; X-rays: galaxies: clusters
资金
- NWO, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- NASA [NNX09AC46G, NNX13AF31G]
- NASA [120597, NNX09AC46G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Motivated by recent claims of a compelling similar to 3.5 keV emission line from nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters, we investigate a novel plasma model incorporating a charge exchange component obtained from theoretical scattering calculations. Fitting this kind of component with a standard thermal model yields positive residuals around 3.5 keV, produced mostly by S X VI transitions from principal quantum numbers n >= 9 to the ground. Such high-n states can only be populated by the charge exchange process. In this scenario, the observed 3.5 keV line flux in clusters can be naturally explained by an interaction in an effective volume of similar to 1 kpc(3) between a similar to 3 keV temperature plasma and cold dense clouds moving at a few hundred keV(-1). The S X VI lines at similar to 3.5 keV also provide a unique diagnostic of the charge exchange phenomenon in hot cosmic plasmas.
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