Origin of Thermal and Non-Thermal Hard X-Ray Emissionfrom the Galactic CenterShow others and affiliations
2009 (English)In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, ISSN 0004-6264, Vol. 61, no 5, p. 1099-1105Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We analyse new results of Chandra and Suzaku Observatories which found a flux of hard X-ray emission from the compact region around Sgr A∗ (r ∼ 100 pc). We suppose that this emission is generated by accretion processes onto the central supermassive blackhole when an unbound part of captured stars obtains an additional momentum. As a result a flux of subrelativistic protons is generated near the galactic center which heats the background plasma up to temperatures about 6–10 keV and produces by inverse bremsstrahlung a flux of non-thermal X-ray emission in the energy range above 10 keV.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2009. Vol. 61, no 5, p. 1099-1105
Keywords [en]
Galaxy: center, ISM: cosmic rays, X-rays: diffuse background
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Research subject
Physics, Astroparticle Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-42868DOI: 10.1093/pasj/61.5.1099OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-42868DiVA, id: diva2:807549
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