Metal Abundances in the Hot Interstellar Medium in Early-Type Galaxies Observed with ASCA

Abstract

We have analyzed ASCA data of 27 early-type galaxies, and studied the properties of their X-ray emitting ISM (Inter Stellar Medium) in detail. We found that overlapping lines and free-bound continuum cause strong coupling in the derived abundances of various elements. The abundance determination is also difficult due to the uncertainties in the Fe-L atomic physics, because Fe-L lines couple with O and Ne K-lines. However, when abundances of $\alpha$-elements are fixed, all the plasma codes give similar Fe abundances with a scattering of only 20-30%. To relax the strong coupling among the elements, we included 20% systematic errors in the Fe-L region of the spectra. Then, in X-ray luminous galaxies, the derived abundance of Fe and $\alpha$-elements both became $\sim 1$ solar within a factor of 2. This result relaxes the previous severe discrepancy between the ISM and stellar metallicities. The ISM metallicity in X-ray fainter galaxies is still uncertain, but we can at least constrain that contribution from type-Ia SN to the ISM abundance is lower than in X-ray luminous systems. These results strongly suggest that a large fraction of SN Ia products have escaped into intergalactic space.

48 pages with 20 figures, Latex(PASJadd.sty, PASJ95.sty), accepted for publication in PASJ

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