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Polarization of X-ray emission from the Sgr B2 cloud

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The Sgr B2 giant molecular cloud is claimed to be an "X-ray reflection nebula" - the reprocessing site of a powerful flare of the Sgr A* source, occurred few hundred years ago. The shape of the X-ray spectrum and the strength of the iron fluorescent line support this hypothesis. We argue that the most clean test of the origin of X-rays from Sgr B2 would be a detection of polarized emission from this source.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0111065,
  title  = {Polarization of X-ray emission from the Sgr B2 cloud},
  author = {E. Churazov and R. Sunyaev and S. Sazonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0111065},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by MNRAS