Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998tx19.confe.341g&link_type=abstract
Abstracts of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, held in Paris, France, Dec. 14-18, 1998. Eds.:
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
In spite of increasing evidences of the presence of a massive Black Hole (BH) at the Galactic Center, its visible counterpart (Sgr A*) shows little activity at high energies, and recent models involving energy advection (ADAF) have been proposed to explain this difficulty. We present results on the hard X-ray emission from the galactic central square degree obtained from the SIGMA/GRANAT 1990-1997 survey of this region. The best upper limits available today on the Sgr A* 35-700 keV emission are presented and compared to X-ray data and to the predictions of ADAF models. We also present simulations of Sgr A* observations with the future ESA gamma-ray Observatory INTEGRAL, which show that the imager instrument (20 keV-10 MeV) will be able either to detect the expected ADAF emission from the accreting Galactic Nucleus BH or set tight upper limits which will constrain the physical parameters of such system.
Goldoni Paolo
Goldwurm Andréa
Laurent Pascal
Lebrun François
Paul Jacques
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