No sign of G2's encounter affecting Sgr A*'s X-ray flaring rate from $Chandra$ observations

Elie Bouffard, Daryl Haggard, Michael A. Nowak +3

An unusual object, G2, had its pericenter passage around Sgr A*, the $4\times 10^6$ M${}_{\odot }$ supermassive black hole in the Galactic Centre, in Summer 2014. Several research teams…