Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2009-05-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ
Scientific paper
A 20' \times 16' elliptical ring-like structure has been found near the Galactic center in the narrow energy band corresponding to the K$\alpha$ line from He-like sulfur. In the ring, two diffuse sources are found, a supernova remnant candidate G359.79-0.26 and an unidentified source G359.77-0.09. The X-ray spectrum of G359.77-0.09 is similar to that of G359.79-0.26, which can be explained by an absorbed thin thermal plasma model with temperatures of 0.7 and 1.0 keV. The absorption column densities of these two sources are large (N_H = 6.9 \times 10^{22} and 4.5 \times 10^{22} cm^{-2}) and are consistent with that of the Galactic center distance. The X-ray spectrum extracted from the ring-like structure is also represented by an absorbed thin thermal plasma model (kT_e \sim 0.9 keV). The thermal energy of the plasma filling the ring-like structure is estimated to be 1.0 \times 10^{51} erg. We therefore propose that the two sources comprise a single ring-like object, which is possibly a super bubble with a size of 49 pc \times 40 pc in the Galactic center region.
Go Tsuru Takeshi
Hyodo Yoshiaki
Koyama Katsuji
Mori Hideyuki
Nobukawa Masayoshi
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