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NuSTAR Hard X-ray Survey of the Galactic Center Region I: Hard X-ray Morphology and Spectroscopy of the Diffuse Emission | | Kaya Mori
; Charles J. Hailey
; Roman Krivonos
; Jaesub Hong
; Gabriele Ponti
; Franz Bauer
; Kerstin Perez
; Melania Nynka
; Shuo Zhang
; John A. Tomsick
; David M. Alexander
; Frederick K. Baganoff
; Didier Barret
; Nicolas Barriere
; Steven E. Boggs
; Alicia M. Canipe
; Finn E. Christensen
; William W. Craig
; Karl Forster
; Paolo Giommi
; Brian W. Grefenstette
; Jonathan E. Grindlay
; Fiona A. Harrison
; Allan Hornstrup
; Takao Kitaguchi
; Jason E. Koglin
; Vy Luu
; Kristen K. Madsen
; Peter H. Mao
; Hiromasa Miyasaka
; Matteo Perri
; Michael J. Pivovaroff
; Simonetta Puccetti
; Vikram Rana
; Daniel Stern
; Niels J. Westergaard
; William W. Zhang
; Andreas Zoglauer
; | | Date: |
15 Oct 2015 | | Abstract: | We present the first sub-arcminute images of the Galactic Center above 10
keV, obtained with NuSTAR. NuSTAR resolves the hard X-ray source IGR
J17456-2901 into non-thermal X-ray filaments, molecular clouds, point sources
and a previously unknown central component of hard X-ray emission (CHXE).
NuSTAR detects four non-thermal X-ray filaments, extending the detection of
their power-law spectra with $Gammasim1.3$-$2.3$ up to ~50 keV. A
morphological and spectral study of the filaments suggests that their origin
may be heterogeneous, where previous studies suggested a common origin in young
pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). NuSTAR detects non-thermal X-ray continuum emission
spatially correlated with the 6.4 keV Fe K$alpha$ fluorescence line emission
associated with two Sgr A molecular clouds: MC1 and the Bridge. Broad-band
X-ray spectral analysis with a Monte-Carlo based X-ray reflection model
self-consistently determined their intrinsic column density ($sim10^{23}$
cm$^{-2}$), primary X-ray spectra (power-laws with $Gammasim2$) and set a
lower limit of the X-ray luminosity of Sgr A* flare illuminating the Sgr A
clouds to $L_X stackrel{>}{sim} 10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$. Above ~20 keV, hard
X-ray emission in the central 10 pc region around Sgr A* consists of the
candidate PWN G359.95-0.04 and the CHXE, possibly resulting from an unresolved
population of massive CVs with white dwarf masses $M_{
m WD} sim 0.9
M_{odot}$. Spectral energy distribution analysis suggests that G359.95-0.04 is
likely the hard X-ray counterpart of the ultra-high gamma-ray source HESS
J1745-290, strongly favoring a leptonic origin of the GC TeV emission. | | Source: | arXiv, 1510.4631 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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