Soft gamma-ray constraints on a bright flare from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole
Abstract
Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the supermassive black hole residing at the center of the Milky Way. It has been the main target of an extensive multiwavelength campaign we carried out in April 2007. Herein, we report the detection of a bright flare from the vicinity of the horizon, observed simultaneously in X-rays (XMM/EPIC) and near infrared (VLT/NACO) on April 4th for 1-2 h. For the first time, such an event also benefitted from a soft gamma-rays (INTEGRAL/ISGRI) and mid infrared (VLT/VISIR) coverage, which enabled us to derive upper limits at both ends of the flare spectral energy distribution (SED). We discuss the physical implications of the contemporaneous light curves as well as the SED, in terms of synchrotron, synchrotron self-Compton and external Compton emission processes.
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@article{arxiv.0910.0399,
title = {Soft gamma-ray constraints on a bright flare from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole},
author = {G. Trap and A. Goldwurm and R. Terrier and K. Dodds-Eden and S. Gillessen and R. Genzel and E. Pantin and P. O. Lagage and P. Ferrando and G. Belanger and D. Porquet and N. Grosso and F. Yusef-Zadeh and F. Melia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0399},
year = {2014}
}
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30 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ASR