X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2012-07-30 v1
Abstract
We discuss the origin of continuum and line X-ray emission observed in the direction the Galactic Center. We predict a significant flux of de-excitation gamma-ray lines in this direction, which can be produced by subrelativistic protons generated by accretion processes.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1002.1379,
title = {X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Center},
author = {V. A. Dogiel and K. -S. Cheng and D. O. Chernyshov and W. -H. Ip and C. -M. Ko and V. Tatischeff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1379},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
5 pages, Contributed talk for the proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, "The Galactic Center: A Window to the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies", in 19-21 October, Shanghai China, 19-21 October, 2009