1805.12134May 30, 20188 pages, 5 figures, and a handful of X-ray photons

Dissecting the X-ray Emission in the Young Planetary Nebula NGC 7027

Rodolfo Montez, Joel H. Kastner

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We present analysis of a second observation of the young planetary nebula (PN) NGC 7027 by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This latest 59.2 ks exposure with ACIS-S was acquired approximately 14 years after the initial 18.2 ks ACIS-S observation, and the improved photon statistics allow us to perform a detailed spatial and spectral analysis of the X-ray emission. Comparison with multiwavelength imaging of NGC 7027 reveals a strong anti-correlation between extinction across the nebula and the soft band X-ray emission. Dissecting the X-ray emission into low- and high-extinction regions results in more robust characterization of the plasma spectral properties. We determine that the X-ray emitting plasma has a temperature of $\sim3.6$ MK, is deficient in Fe, and has an X-ray luminosity of $L_{\rm X}\sim7\times10^{31}{\rm ~erg~s}^{-1}$

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