Polarization of X-ray emission from the Sgr B2 cloud

Details Polarization of X-ray emission from the Sgr B2 cloud Polarization of X-ray emission from the Sgr B2 cloud

2001-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111065v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 330 (2002) 817

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05113.x

The Sgr B2 giant molecular cloud is claimed to be an "X-ray reflection nebula" - the reprocessing site of a powerful flare of the Sgr A* source, occurred few hundred years ago. The shape of the X-ray spectrum and the strength of the iron fluorescent line support this hypothesis. We argue that the most clean test of the origin of X-rays from Sgr B2 would be a detection of polarized emission from this source.

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