A deep study confirms diffuse nonthermal X-ray emission from the globular cluster Terzan 5
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Abstract
Diffuse X-ray emission has been detected from a few Galactic globular clusters (GCs), but its nature remains largely unclear. The GC Terzan 5 was previously found \n to show \n a significant diffuse thermal X-ray excess from its field, likely contributed by the \n Galactic background, and a nonthermal component described by a power-law model with photon index $ With over 16 times the accumulated exposure time compared to a prior study, we reexamined and verified the diffuse X-ray emission from the field of which enabled us to place constraints on its nature. We analyzed all available useful observations of including 18 observations over a span of 13 years, with a total exposure time of 641.6 ks. To study the diffuse X-ray emission, we focused on four annular regions with an equal width of 0.72 arcmin centered on (0.72--3.60 arcmin), from which we extracted and analyzed the X-ray spectra after removing point sources and instrumental backgrounds. We confirm a significant diffuse X-ray excess from the field of in the band 0.8--3 keV. After constraining the contribution from the local X-ray background, we find a diffuse X-ray component that is genuinely associated with and can be well described by a power-law model. More interestingly, the fitted photon indices show a significant increase from $ 0.18$ in the inner region to $ 0.71$ in the outer region. The diffuse X-rays are also well fit by a thermal bremsstrahlung model, with plasma temperatures declining from $kT 3$ keV to $kT 1$ keV. We suggest that synchrotron radiation from the combined pulsar winds of millisecond pulsar population is a possible origin of the observed diffuse X-ray emission but that the sharp steepening in the spectra cannot be produced solely by synchrotron cooling. Other radiation processes, like thermal bremsstrahlung, may also contribute to the diffuse X-rays.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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