Bibcode
Dosaj, A.; Garcia, M. G.; Forman, W. R.; Jones, C.; Kong, A.; Primini, F. A.; Di Stefano, R.; Murray, S. S.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #46.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1369
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2001
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Description
We will present analysis of the diffuse emission from the nucleus of M31
using a 40 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation. The observation was taken by
Chandra on 5 October, 2001. This is a continuation of our work performed
on a 5 ks observation with the Chandra ACIS-I detector, presented as a
poster paper at the 2001 ASP conference. With this observation we
performed spectral analysis of the diffuse emission in annuli whose
radii increase with one arcminute increments. We reported that the
diffuse emission is best described by a cool Mekal spectrum whose
temperature varies radially from 0.5 to 0.26 keV +/-15%. This emission
is much softer than that of the point sources. The surface brightness
profile was fit to a king model, S = So ( 1 + (
(r)/(a))2)-3β + (1)/(2)}, which yields
β = 0.55, typical of galaxies. The inferred gas density
distribution is a power law with exponent -1.65. With this new
observation we will be able to get better spectral fits, allowing us to
determine gas temperatures to better than +/-10% with 0.5 (rather than
one) arcminute annuli. New calibration for the S3 chip coupled with the
aimpoint being closer to the readout registers will reduce the effects
of CTI suffered by the earlier observation. Further, unlike the ACIS-I
observation the S3 chip will recieve better counting statistics for a
soft source such as the the cool diffuse emission. This research
supported by NASA Contract NAS8-39073 to the Chandra X-ray Center.