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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21238 |
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- AX J145732-5901 is an unidentified X-ray source discovered in the ASCA Galactic plane survey. Its extended nature and heavily absorbed X-ray spectrum suggest that AX J145732-5901 is a cluster of galaxies behind the Galactic plane. However, due to limited photon statistics, the spectral shape was not well examined. Using the results of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission and Cosmic X-ray background studies based on the Suzaku observations, we reanalyzed the ASCA data of AX J145732-5901. We confirmed that the source is more extended than the point spread function and the angular size is 14'x10'. The spectrum was heavily absorbed by interstellar matter equivalent to an N_{H} of ~10^{23} cm^{-2} and the emission line feature was confirmed. The spectrum was represented by a thin thermal plasma model with a temperature of 2.6 keV and a redshift of 0.12. Assuming the redshift value, the X-ray luminosity is calculated to be 2.6x10^{44} erg s^{-1} in the 1-10 keV energy band. The observational results indicate that AX J145732-5901 is a cluster of galaxies behind the Galactic plane.