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The Galactic Center Region has been surveyed in 1997-1998 with the Narrow Field Instruments on-board the BeppoSAX satellite (2-10keV energy range). The X-ray emission from SgrA*, the putative supermassive black hole at the center of our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Sidoli

The Galactic Anticenter Stellar Structure (GASS) has been identified with excess surface densities of field stars in several large area sky surveys, and with an unusual, string-like grouping of star clusters. Some members of the cluster…

We present a detailed study of molecular gas in the central 10pc of the Galaxy through spectral line observations of four rotation inversion transitions of NH3 made with the VLA. Updated line widths and NH3(1,1) opacities are presented, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. M. Herrnstein , P. T. P. Ho

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are thought to originate at cosmological distances from the most powerful explosions in the Universe. If GRBs are not beamed then the distribution of their number as a function of Gamma-ray flux implies that they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Abraham Loeb , Rosalba Perna

The energy output (per logarithmic interval of particle energies) of Cosmic Rays (CRs) with energies $10{\rm GeV}\lesssim\varepsilon_p\lesssim100{\rm GeV}$ is $\sim 10^{47}\rm erg$ per solar mass of star$-$formation, based on the CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-05 Boaz Katz , Eli Waxman , Todd Thompson , Abraham Loeb

M87, the active galaxy at the center of the Virgo cluster, is ideal for studying the interaction of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) with a hot, gas-rich environment. A deep Chandra observation of M87 exhibits an approximately circular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-09 W. Forman , E. Churazov , C. Jones , S. Heinz , R. Kraft , A. Vikhlinin

With 10 years of high-resolution imaging data now available on the stellar cluster in the Galactic Center, we analyze the dynamics of the stars at projected distances $\leq1.2''$ from the central black hole candidate Sagittarius A* (Sgr…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Schoedel , R. Genzel , T. Ott , A. Eckart

Recently, a new population of circular radio ($\sim$GHz) objects have been discovered at high Galactic latitudes, called the Odd Radio Circles (ORCs). A fraction of the ORCs encircles massive galaxies in the sky with stellar mass $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-26 Shotaro Yamasaki , Kartick C. Sarkar , Zhaozhou Li

On the basis of ``sticky particle'' calculations, it is argued that the gas features observed within 10 pc of the Galactic Centre-- the circumnuclear disk (CND) and the ionized gas filaments-- as well as the newly formed stars in the inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. H. Sanders

Molecular clouds in the Galactic center (GC) reprocess radiation from past outbursts of nearby high-energy sources, generating a bright Fe K-alpha fluorescence at 6.4 keV. The closest clouds to the GC are only $\simeq 1.5$ pc from Sgr A*,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 G. Stel , G. Ponti , F. Haardt

We present HST/NICMOS images at 0.2" resolution of the HI Paschen Alpha (PaA) emission line in a 70" x 90" region of the Galactic center centered on the non-thermal radio source Sgr A*. The majority of the emission arises from ionized gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 N. Z. Scoville , S. R. Stolovy , M. Rieke , M. H. Christopher , F. Yusef-Zadeh

The Galactic center region is the most active region in the Milky Way harboring a wealth of photon sources at all wavelengths. H.E.S.S. observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region revealed for the first time in very high energy (VHE, E>…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-28 A. Viana

We argue that the North Polar Spur (NPS) and many less prominent structures are formed by gaseous metal-rich plumes associated with star-forming regions (SFRs). The SFRs located at the tangent to the 3-5~kpc rings might be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 E. Churazov , I. Khabibullin , A. M. Bykov , N. N. Chugai , R. A. Sunyaev , V. P. Utrobin , I. I. Zinchenko

We present a wide field, sub-arcminute resolution VLA image of the Galactic Center region at 330 MHz. With a resolution of ~ 7" X 12" and an RMS noise of 1.6 mJy/beam, this image represents a significant increase in resolution and…

We report the ASCA results of the supernova remnants (SNRs) and their candidates in the Galactic Center region. We found apparent X-ray emission from G359.1-0.5 and G0.9+0.1, and made marginal detection for G359.1+0.9, but found no…

Starburst galaxies, like M82, launch kiloparsec-scale galactic outflows that interact with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in complex ways. Apart from enriching the CGM with metals and energy, these outflows may trigger star formation in…

The gas cloud G2 is currently being tidally disrupted by the Galactic Centre super-massive black hole, Sgr A*. The region around the black hole is populated by $\sim 30$ Wolf-Rayet stars, which produce strong outflows. We explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 D. Calderón , A. Ballone , J. Cuadra , M. Schartmann , A. Burkert , S. Gillessen

Multi-frequency, polarimetric VLA observations of the non-thermal filaments (NTF's), G0.08+0.15, and G359.96+0.09, also known as the Northern and Southern Threads are presented at 20, 6, 3.6 and 2 cm, with high enough spatial resolution to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cornelia C. Lang , Mark Morris , Luis Echevarria

Superbubbles in the nuclear region of galaxies could be produced by the AGN or nuclear starburst via different driving forces. We report analysis of the multi-wavelength data of the kpc-scale nuclear superbubble in NGC 3079, in order to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-08 Jiang-Tao Li , Wei Sun , Li Ji , Yang Yang

From an on-going survey of the Galactic bulge, we have discovered a number of compact, steep spectrum radio sources. In this present study we have carried out more detailed observations for two of these sources, located 43 arcmin and 12.7…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 S. D. Hyman , D. A. Frail , J. S. Deneva , N. E. Kassim , S. Giacintucci , J. E. Kooi , T. J. W. Lazio , I. Joyner , W. M. Peters , V. Gajjar , A. P. V. Siemion