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.
arXiv comment10 pages, an invited talk presented in the GC2006 workshop, high-resolution version available at http://www.astro.umass.edu/~wqd/papers/arches/gc2006.pdf
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