XMMU J0541.8-6659, a new supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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Table 3

XMM-Newton spectral results of the soft thermal emitting region in the 0.3–5.0 keV energy range.

Parameter	Value

N_H (×10²¹ cm^-2) in the Galaxy	0.6 (fixed)
N_H (×10²¹ cm^-2) in the LMC	0 (fixed)
kT (keV)	0.49 ± 0.12
Ionisation timescale^*τ (s cm^-3)	(1.5 ± 0.7) × 10¹⁰
Absorbed flux (0.3–5.0 keV, erg/cm²/s)	2.5 × 10^-13
Absorbed luminosity (0.3–5.0 keV, erg/s)	5.1 × 10³⁴
Unabsorbed luminosity (0.3–5.0 keV, erg/s)	8.9 × 10³⁴
Reduced χ²	1.27
Degrees of freedom	86

Notes. Model is VNEI with abundances fixed to 0.5 of the solar abundances.

^(*)

The ionisation timescale τ = n_et, where n_e is the electron number density and t is the age of the gas.

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