The Nature of Nonthermal X-ray Filaments Near the Galactic Center

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2005-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502260v1

Adv.Space Res.35:1074-1084,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 9 figures, in Cospar 2004 session E1.4; editors: Cara Rakowski and Shami Chatterjee; "Young Neutron Stars and Supern

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.asr.2005.02.057

Recent Chandra and XMM-{\it Newton} observations reported evidence of two X-ray filaments G359.88-0.08 (SgrA-E) and G359.54+0.18 (the ripple filament) near the Galactic center. The X-ray emission from these filaments has a nonthermal spectrum and coincides with synchrotron emitting radio sources. Here, we report the detection of a new X-ray feature coincident with a radio filament G359.90-0.06 (SgrA-F) and show more detailed VLA, Chandra and BIMA observations of the radio and X-ray filaments. In particular, we show that radio emission from the nonthermal filaments G359.90-0.06 (SgrA-F) and G359.54+0.18 (the ripple) has a steep spectrum whereas G359.88-0.08 (SgrA-E) has a flat spectrum. The X-ray emission from both these sources could be due to synchrotron radiation. However, given that the 20 \kms molecular cloud, with its intense 1.2mm dust emission, lies in the vicinity of SgrA-F, it is possible that the X-rays could be produced by inverse Compton scattering of far-infrared photons from dust by the relativistic electrons responsible for the radio synchrotron emission. The production of X-ray emission from ICS allows an estimate of the magnetic field strength of ~0.08 mG within the nonthermal filament. This should be an important parameter for any models of the Galactic center nonthermal filaments.

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