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| author | Meulen, Bert Vander Camps, Peter Tsujimoto, Masahiro Wada, Keiichi |
| author_facet | Meulen, Bert Vander Camps, Peter Tsujimoto, Masahiro Wada, Keiichi |
| contents | We included the intrinsic line profiles of the strongest fluorescent lines in the X-ray radiative transfer code SKIRT to model the cold-gas structure and kinematics based on high-resolution line observations from XRISM/Resolve and Athena/X-IFU. The intrinsic line profiles of the Ka and Kb lines of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu were implemented based on a multi-Lorentzian parameterisation and line energies are sampled from these Lorentzian components during the radiative transfer routine. In the optically thin regime, the SKIRT results match the intrinsic line profiles as measured in the laboratory. With a more complex 3D model that also includes kinematics, we find that the intrinsic line profiles are broadened and shifted to an extent that will be detectable with XRISM/Resolve; this model also demonstrates the importance of the intrinsic line shapes for constraining kinematics. We find that observed line profiles directly trace the cold-gas kinematics, without any additional radiative transfer effects. With the advent of the first XRISM/Resolve data, this update to the X-ray radiative transfer framework of SKIRT is timely and provides a unique tool for constraining the velocity structure of cold gas from X-ray microcalorimeter spectra. |
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| spellingShingle | Intrinsic line profiles for X-ray fluorescent lines in SKIRT Meulen, Bert Vander Camps, Peter Tsujimoto, Masahiro Wada, Keiichi High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena We included the intrinsic line profiles of the strongest fluorescent lines in the X-ray radiative transfer code SKIRT to model the cold-gas structure and kinematics based on high-resolution line observations from XRISM/Resolve and Athena/X-IFU. The intrinsic line profiles of the Ka and Kb lines of Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu were implemented based on a multi-Lorentzian parameterisation and line energies are sampled from these Lorentzian components during the radiative transfer routine. In the optically thin regime, the SKIRT results match the intrinsic line profiles as measured in the laboratory. With a more complex 3D model that also includes kinematics, we find that the intrinsic line profiles are broadened and shifted to an extent that will be detectable with XRISM/Resolve; this model also demonstrates the importance of the intrinsic line shapes for constraining kinematics. We find that observed line profiles directly trace the cold-gas kinematics, without any additional radiative transfer effects. With the advent of the first XRISM/Resolve data, this update to the X-ray radiative transfer framework of SKIRT is timely and provides a unique tool for constraining the velocity structure of cold gas from X-ray microcalorimeter spectra. |
| title | Intrinsic line profiles for X-ray fluorescent lines in SKIRT |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03367 |