XMM-Newton study of hard X-ray sources in IC443

Abstract

We present \xmm observations of hard X-ray emission from the field of IC443, a supernova remnant interacting with a molecular cloud. The hard emission from the field is dominated by 12 isolated sources having 2--10 keV flux $\ga 10^{-14}$ $\enf$. Only a fraction of the sources are expected to be extragalactic or stars on statistical grounds, while the others may be associated with the remnant. We have analyzed near-infrared K band and also DSS optical data for all of the detected sources, finding that six X-ray sources are located in a relatively small $15^{\prime }\times 15^{\prime }$ region where there is strong 2.2 $\mu \mathrm{m}$ infrared emission, indicating interaction with a molecular cloud. The source 1SAX J0618.0+2227, the brightest in this region (excluding the plerion), is resolved with \xmm into two sources, one of which is extended and has a hard power law spectrum photon index $\lsim$ 1.5) and shows some indications of spectral line signatures (e.g. Si), while the other is point-like and has a featureless spectrum of steeper photon index $\sim$ 2.2. Possible interpretations of some of the discrete sources in terms of interaction between the SNR and the molecular cloud are discussed.

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