Chandra Observations of the Galactic Center: High Energy Processes at Arcsecond Resolution

Authors

QD Wang, University of Massachusetts - AmherstFollow

Publication Date

2006

Journal or Book Title

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Abstract

About 2 million seconds of Chandra observing time have been devoted to the Galactic Center (GC), including large-scale surveys and deep pointings. These observations have led to the detection of about 4000 discrete X-ray sources and the mapping of diffuse X-ray emission in various energy bands. In this review, I frst summarize general results from recent studies and then present close-up views of the three massive star clusters (Arches, Quintuplet, and GC) and their interplay with the Galactic nuclear environment.

Comments

This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/54/1/020/

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/54/1/020

Pages

115-

Volume

54

Recommended Citation

Wang, QD, "Chandra Observations of the Galactic Center: High Energy Processes at Arcsecond Resolution" (2006). Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1041.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/54/1/020