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Discoveries of Diffuse Iron Line Sources from the Sgr B Region

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

The radio complex Sgr B region is observed with the X-Ray Imaging Spectrometers (XIS) on board Suzaku. This region exhibits diffuse iron lines at 6.4, 6.7 and 6.9 keV, which are Kα\alpha lines of Fe \emissiontype{I} (neutral iron), Fe\emissiontype{XXV} (He-like iron) and Fe\emissiontype{XXVI} (H-like iron), respectively. The high energy resolving power of the XIS provides the separate maps of the K-shell transition lines from Fe\emissiontype{I} (6.4 keV) and Fe\emissiontype{XXV} (6.7 keV). Although the 6.7 keV line is smoothly distributed over the Sgr B region, a local excess is found near at (l,b)=(\timeform0D.61,\timeform0D.01)(l, b) = (\timeform {0D.61}, \timeform{0D.01}), possibly a new SNR. The plasma temperature is \textit{kT} \sim3 keV and the age is estimated to be around several×103\times10^{3} years. The 6.4 keV image is clumpy with local excesses nearby Sgr B2 and at (l,b)=(\timeform0D.74,\timeform0D.09)(l, b) = (\timeform{0D.74}, -\timeform{0D.09}). Like Sgr B2, this excess may be another candidate of an X-ray reflection nebula (XRN).

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609310,
  title  = {Discoveries of Diffuse Iron Line Sources from the Sgr B Region},
  author = {Katsuji Koyama and Tatsuya Inui and Yoshiaki Hyodo and Hironori Matsumoto and Takeshi Go Tsuru and Yoshitomo Maeda and Hiroshi Murakami and Shigeo Yamauchi and Steven E. Kissel and Kai-Wing and Chan Yang Soong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609310},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures