Density Diagnostics of the Hot Plasma in AE Aquarii with XMM-Newton

Kei Itoh, Manabu Ishida, Hideyo Kunieda

High resolution spectroscopy of AE Aquarii with the XMM-Newton RGS has enabled us to measure the electron number density of the X-ray-emitting hot plasma to be ~1E11/cm**-3 by mean…