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2024ApJ...965..100Q - Astrophys. J., 965, 100 (2024/April-3)

The XMM-Newton Line Emission Analysis Program (X-LEAP). II. The Multiscale Temperature Structures in the Milky Way Hot Gas.

QU Z., PAN Z., BREGMAN J.N. and LIU J.

Abstract (from CDS):

This paper presents the multiscale temperature structures in the Milky Way (MW) hot gas, as part of the XMM-Newton Line Emission Analysis Program, surveying the O VII, O VIII, and Fe-L band emission features in the XMM-Newton archive. In particular, we define two temperature tracers, IOVIII/IOVII (O87) and IFeL/(IOVII + IOVIII) (FeO). These two ratios cannot be explained simultaneously using single-temperature collisional ionization models, which indicates the need for multitemperature structures in hot gas. In addition, we show three large-scale features in the hot gas: the eROSITA bubbles around the Galactic center (GC), the disk, and the halo. In the eROSITA bubbles, the observed line ratios can be explained by a log-normal temperature distribution with a median of $\mathrm{log}T/{\rm{K}}\approx 6.4$ and a scatter of σT ≈ 0.2 dex. Beyond the bubbles, the line ratio dependence on the Galactic latitude suggests higher temperatures around the midplane of the MW disk. The scale height of the temperature variation is estimated to be ≈2 kpc assuming an average distance of 5 kpc for the hot gas. The halo component is characterized by the dependence on the distance to the GC, showing a temperature decline from $\mathrm{log}\,T/{\rm{K}}\,\approx 6.3$ to 5.8. Furthermore, we extract the autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions to investigate the small-scale structures. O87 and FeO ratios show a consistent autocorrelation scale of ≈5° (i.e., ≈400 pc at 5 kpc), which is consistent with the expected physical sizes of X-ray bubbles associated with star-forming regions or supernova remnants. Finally, we examine the cross-correlation between the hot and UV-detected warm gas and show an intriguing anticorrelation.

Abstract Copyright: © 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Diffuse x-ray background - Circumgalactic medium - the Milky Way fountains - Hot ionized medium

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