Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 2 figures, AAS LaTeX, To be published in The Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/319737
We present an ASCA discovery of diffuse hard X-ray emission from the Sgr C complex with its peak in the vicinity of the molecular cloud core. The X-ray spectrum is characterized by a strong 6.4-keV line and large absorption. These properties suggest that Sgr C is a new X-ray reflection nebula which emits fluorescent and scattered X-rays via irradiation from an external X-ray source. We found no adequately bright source in the immediate Sgr C vicinity to fully account for the fluorescence. The irradiating source may be the Galactic nucleus Sgr A*, which was brighter in the past than it is now as is suggested from observations of the first X-ray reflection nebula Sgr B2.
Koyama Katsuji
Maeda Yoshiaki
Murakami Hitoshi
Sakano Masa
Tsujimoto Masahiro
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