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Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra

Ka-Wah Wong, Jimmy A. Irwin, Mihoko Yukita +3

Gas undergoing Bondi accretion onto a supermassive black hole (SMBH) becomes hotter toward smaller radii. We searched for this signature with a Chandra observation of the hot gas i…