Study of Wide-Field-of-View X-ray Observations of the Virgo Cluster Using the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy

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العنوان: Study of Wide-Field-of-View X-ray Observations of the Virgo Cluster Using the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy
المؤلفون: Feng, Wen-Cheng, Jia, Shu-Mei, Zhao, Hai-Hui, Yu, Heng, Pan, Hai-Wu, Li, Cheng-Kui, Cheng, Yu-Lin, Weng, Shan-Shan, Chen, Yong, Liu, Yuan, Ling, Zhi-Xing, Zhang, Chen
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: The Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA) is the pathfinder of the wide-field X-ray telescope used in the Einstein Probe mission. In this study, we present an image of the Virgo Cluster taken by LEIA in the 0.5-4.5 keV band with an exposure time of $\sim$17.3 ks in the central region. This extended emission is generally consistent with the results obtained by ROSAT. However, the field is affected by bright point sources due to the instrument's Point Spread Function (PSF) effect. Through fitting of the LEIA spectrum of the Virgo Cluster, we obtained a temperature of $2.1^{+0.3}_{-0.1}$ keV, which is consistent with the XMM-Newton results ($\sim$2.3 keV). Above 1.6 keV, the spectrum is dominated by the X-ray background. In summary, this study validates LEIA's extended source imaging and spectral resolution capabilities for the first time.
Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00026
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2408.00026
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv