Extended hard-X-ray emission in the inner few parsecs of the Galaxy

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7549, 2015, Pages 646-649

  Perez, Kerstin ^a,b   Hailey, Charles J ^a   Bauer, Franz E ^c,d,e   Krivonos, Roman A ^f   Mori, Kaya ^a   Baganoff, Frederick K ^g   Barrière, Nicolas M ^f   Boggs, Steven E ^f   Christensen, Finn E ^h   Craig, William W ^f,i   Grefenstette, Brian W ^j,k   Grindlay, Jonathan E ^l   Harrison, Fiona A ^j,k   Hong, Jaesub ^l   Madsen, Kristin K ^j,k   Nynka, Melania ^a   Stern, Daniel ^m   Tomsick, John A ^f   Wik, Daniel R ⁿ   Zhang, Shuo ^a   Zhang, William W ⁿ   Zoglauer, Andreas ^f   more..

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d MILLENNIUM INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (Chile)

^e Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

ⁱ LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^m CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY; EMISSION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; RADIATION BALANCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BREMS RADIATION; BRIGHTNESS; COSMIC RADIATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

SAGITTARIUS;

EID: 84928815619     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14353     Document Type: Article

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