X-ray diagnostics of giant molecular clouds in the galactic center region and past activity of Sgr A*

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 740, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Odaka, Hirokazu ^a,b   Aharonian, Felix ^c,d   Watanabe, Shin ^a   Tanaka, Yasuyuki ^a   Khangulyan, Dmitry ^a,d   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Galaxy: center; ISM: individual objects (Sgr B2); radiative transfer; scattering; X rays: ISM

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053987541     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/740/2/103     Document Type: Article

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