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The Galactic diffuse X-ray emission (GDXE) can be spatially segmented into the Galactic center X-ray Emission (GCXE), the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE), and the Galactic bulge X-ray emission (GBXE). The X-ray spectra of the GDXE are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-19 Katsuji Koyama , Masayoshi Nobukawa

This paper reports detailed K-shell line profiles of iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni) of the Galactic Center X-ray Emission (GCXE), Galactic Bulge X-ray Emission (GBXE), Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission (GRXE), magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (mCVs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-05 Masayoshi Nobukawa , Hideki Uchiyama , Kumiko K. Nobukawa , Shigeo Yamauchi , Katsuji Koyama

This paper reports the analysis of the X-ray spectra of the Galactic diffuse X-ray emission (GDXE) in the Suzaku archive. The fluxes of the Fe I K alpha (6.4 keV), Fe XXV,He alpha (6.7 keV) and Fe XXVI Ly alpha (6.97 keV) lines are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Shigeo Yamauchi , Kumiko K. Nobukawa , Masayoshi Nobukawa , Hideki Uchiyama , Katsuji Koyama

This paper reports that the X-ray spectrum from the Galactic Center X-ray Emission (GCXE) is expressed by the assembly of active binaries, non-magnetic Cataclysmic Variables, magnetic Cataclysmic Variables (X-ray active star: XAS), cold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-01 Masayoshi Nobukawa , Katsuji Koyama

We have observed the diffuse X-ray emission from the Galactic center (GC) using the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) on Suzaku. The high-energy resolution and the low-background orbit provide excellent spectra of the GC diffuse X-rays…

The most characteristic high-energy phenomena in the Galactic center (GC) region is the presence of strong K-shell emission lines from highly ionized Si, S, Ar, Ca, Fe and Ni, which form the Galactic Center X-ray Emission (GCXE). These…

The high energy resolution and low background, particularly in the hard X-ray band, of the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer onboard Suzaku provide excellent spectra of the Galactic center diffuse X-rays (GCDX). This paper reports on the results…

We report the global distribution of the intensities of the K-shell lines from the He-like and H-like ions of S, Ar, Ca and Fe along the Galactic plane. From the profiles, we clearly separate the Galactic center X-ray emission (GCXE) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Hideki Uchiyama , Masayoshi Nobukawa , Takeshi Go Tsuru , Katsuji Koyama

We have surveyed spatial profiles of the Fe K$\alpha$ lines in the Galactic center diffuse X-rays (GCDX), including the transient region from the GCDX to the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE), with the Suzaku satellite. We resolved Fe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Hideki Uchiyama , Masayoshi Nobukawa , Takeshi Go Tsuru , Katsuji Koyama , Hironori Matsumoto

The Galactic Center X-ray Emission (GCXE) is composed of high temperature (7 keV) and low temperature (1 keV) plasmas (HTP and LTP, respectively). The global structure of the HTP is roughly uniform over the Galactic center (GC) region, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Shigeo Yamauchi , Miku Shimizu , Masayoshi Nobukawa , Kumiko K. Nobukawa , Hideki Uchiyama , Katsuji Koyama

The Galactic diffuse X-ray emission (GDXE) is believed to arise from unresolved populations of numerous low-luminosity X-ray binary systems that trace stellar mass distribution of the Milky Way. Many dedicated studies carried out over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-31 Ekaterina Kuznetsova , Roman Krivonos , Kerstin Perez , Daniel R. Wik

The Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission (GRXE) is apparently extended X-ray emission along the Galactic Plane. The X-ray spectrum is characterized by hard continuum with a strong Fe K emission feature in the 6-7 keV band. A substantial fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 Kumiko Morihana , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Pierre Dubath , Tessei Yoshida , Kensuke Suzuki , Ken Ebisawa

Detailed spectral analysis of the Galactic X-ray background emission, or the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission (GRXE), is presented. To study the origin of the emission, broad-band and high-quality GRXE spectra were produced from 18 pointing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Takayuki Yuasa , Kazuo Makishima , Kazuhiro Nakazawa

Apparently diffuse X-ray emission has been known to exist along the central quarter of the Galactic Plane since the beginning of the X-ray astronomy, which is referred to as the Galactic Ridge X-ray emission (GRXE). Recent deep X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Kumiko Morihana , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Tessei Yoshida , Ken Ebisawa

The origin of the X-ray emission from the central region of the Galaxy has remained a mystery, despite extensive study over the past two decades. A fundamental question is the relative contribution of the point-source and diffuse components…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. D. Wang , E. V. Gotthelf , C. C. Lang

We present a new methodology to derive the positions of the Sgr B molecular clouds (MCs) along the line of sight, as an application study of the Galactic center diffuse X-rays (GCDX). The GCDX is composed of hot plasma emission of about 7…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Syukyo G. Ryu , Katsuji Koyama , Masayoshi Nobukawa , Ryosuke Fukuoka , Takeshi Go Tsuru

We analyze a map of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) constructed in the 3-20 keV energy band from RXTE/PCA scan and slew observations. We show that the GRXE intensity closely follows the Galactic near-infrared surface brightness and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Revnivtsev , S. Sazonov , M. Gilfanov , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

The properties of the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission (GRXE) observed in the 2-10 keV band place fundamental constraints on various types of X-ray sources in the Milky Way. Although the primarily discrete origin of the emission is now well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Xiao-jie Xu , Q. Daniel Wang , Xiang-Dong Li

We report the first results from high-statistics observation of the 6.4-keV line in the region of $l= +1.5^\circ$ to $+3.5^\circ$ (hereafter referred to as GC East), with the goal to uncover the origin of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-04 T. G. Tsuru , H. Uchiyama , K. K. Nobukawa , M. Nobukawa , S. Nakashima , K. Koyama , K. Torii , Y. Fukui

A long BeppoSAX observation of the Galactic Center region shows that the spectrum of the diffuse X-ray emission from the SgrA Complex can be described with the sum of two thermal plasma models with temperatures of ~0.6 keV and \~8-9 keV.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti
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