X-Ray Observations of the Galactic Center with Suzaku
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We report on the diffuse X-ray emissions from the Galactic center (GCDX) observed with the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) on board the Suzaku satellite. The highly accurate energy calibrations and extremely low background of the XIS provide many new facts on the GCDX. These are (1) the origin of the 6.7/7.0keV lines is collisional excitation in hot plasma, (2) new SNR and super-bubble candidates are found, (3) most of the 6.4keV line is fluorescence by X-rays, and (4) time variability of the 6.4keV line is found from the SgrB2 complex.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.2866,
title = {X-Ray Observations of the Galactic Center with Suzaku},
author = {K. Koyama and Y. Hyodo and T. Inui and M. Nobukawa and H. Mori},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2866},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figure, proceedings of the XMM-Newton workshop, June 2007, accepted for publication in AN