TY - JOUR
T1 - X-Ray Spectroscopy in the Microcalorimeter Era 4
T2 - Optical Depth Effects on the Soft X-Rays Studied with Cloudy
AU - Chakraborty, Priyanka
AU - Ferland, Gary J.
AU - Chatzikos, Marios
AU - Fabian, Andrew C.
AU - Bianchi, Stefano
AU - Guzmán, Francisco
AU - Su, Yuanyuan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - In this paper, we discuss atomic processes modifying the soft X-ray spectra from optical depth effects like photoelectric absorption and electron scattering suppressing the soft X-ray lines. We also show the enhancement in soft X-ray line intensities in a photoionized environment via continuum pumping. We quantify the suppression/enhancement by introducing a "line modification factor (f mod)."If 0 ≤ f mod ≤ 1, the line is suppressed, which could be the case in both collisionally ionized and photoionized systems. If f mod ≥ 1, the line is enhanced, which occurs in photoionized systems. Hybrid astrophysical sources are also very common, where the environment is partly photoionized and partly collisionally ionized. Such a system is V1223 Sgr, an Intermediate Polar binary. We show the application of our theory by fitting the first-order Chandra Medium Energy Grating (MEG) spectrum of V1223 Sgr with a combination of Cloudy-simulated additive cooling-flow and photoionized models. In particular, we account for the excess flux for O vii, O viii, Ne ix, Ne x, and Mg xi lines in the spectrum found in a recent study, which could not be explained with an absorbed cooling-flow model.
AB - In this paper, we discuss atomic processes modifying the soft X-ray spectra from optical depth effects like photoelectric absorption and electron scattering suppressing the soft X-ray lines. We also show the enhancement in soft X-ray line intensities in a photoionized environment via continuum pumping. We quantify the suppression/enhancement by introducing a "line modification factor (f mod)."If 0 ≤ f mod ≤ 1, the line is suppressed, which could be the case in both collisionally ionized and photoionized systems. If f mod ≥ 1, the line is enhanced, which occurs in photoionized systems. Hybrid astrophysical sources are also very common, where the environment is partly photoionized and partly collisionally ionized. Such a system is V1223 Sgr, an Intermediate Polar binary. We show the application of our theory by fitting the first-order Chandra Medium Energy Grating (MEG) spectrum of V1223 Sgr with a combination of Cloudy-simulated additive cooling-flow and photoionized models. In particular, we account for the excess flux for O vii, O viii, Ne ix, Ne x, and Mg xi lines in the spectrum found in a recent study, which could not be explained with an absorbed cooling-flow model.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7eb9
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7eb9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85136659327
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 935
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 2
M1 - 70
ER -