Contribution of the 6.7 keV Emission line from Stellar Flares to the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission
Abstract
Stellar flares create sudden bursts of hot plasma that contain a wide range of temperatures, and are capable of generating 6.7 keV Fe XXV emission line via electronic collisional excitation. Using the measured 6.7 keV fluxes from a collection of Suzaku-observed stellar flares as a baseline, we estimate their contribution to the 6.7 keV emission line from the Galactic Ridge X-ray emission (GRXE). We modeled the extracted stellar flares’ spectra from our sources with an absorbed Bremstrahlung. We found strong 6.7 keV emission line from the extracted stellar flares’ spectra which is similar to the observed 6.7 keV emission line from the GRXE, while the 6.4 and 7.0 keV lines appear to be faint. The present result supports the earlier result that stellar flares contribute significantly to the total luminosity of the GRXE and that the GRXE luminosity could be primarily explained via hard X-ray emitting symbiotic stars (hSSs), and magnetic cataclysmic variables (mCVs), along with other white dwarf binary systems and stellar flares.
- Publication:
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IAU General Assembly
- Pub Date:
- August 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015IAUGA..2227913N