Thermal X-ray iron line emission from the galactic center black hole Sagittarius A*

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 640, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 319-326

  Xu, Y D ^a,b   Narayan, Ramesh ^b   Quataert, Eliot ^c   Yuan, Feng ^d   Baganoff, Frederick K ^e  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Black hole physics; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxy: center; Radiation mechanisms: thermal; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645516410     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499932     Document Type: Article

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