Chandra Observations of Galactic Center: High Energy Processes at Arcsecond Resolution
arXiv:astro-ph/0606414 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/54/1/020
Abstract
About 2 million seconds of Chandra observing time have been devoted to the Galactic center (GC), including large-scale surveys and deep pointings. These observations have led to the detection of about 4000 discrete X-ray sources and the mapping of diffuse X-ray emission in various energy bands. In this review, I first summarize general results from recent studies and then present close-up views of the three massive star clusters (Arches, Quintuplet, and GC) and their interplay with the Galactic nuclear environment.
10 pages, an invited talk presented in the GC2006 workshop, high-resolution version available at http://www.astro.umass.edu/~wqd/papers/arches/gc2006.pdf