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Sgr B2区中性铁谱线的时间变化及其对Sgr A $^*$爆发的指示

Time Variability of the Neutral Iron Lines from the Sgr B2 Region and its Implication of a Past Outburst of Sgr A$^*$

Tatsuya Inui, Katsuji Koyama, Hironori Matsumoto, Takeshi Go Tsuru

摘要:

我们使用X射线卫星朱雀,XMM-牛顿,钱德拉和ASCA的档案数据研究了Sgr B2复合体的长期X射线行为。观测到的Sgr B2复合物区域包括在6.40 keV的Fe I K- $α$线上的两个突出点,一个巨大的分子云M 0.66 $-$ 0.02,称为“Sgr B2云”,和一个不寻常的X射线源G 0.570 $-$ 0.018。虽然这些6.40千电子伏的斑点有几个pc尺度的空间扩展,形态和通量的6.40千电子伏线已随时间变化了10年,在银河系的扩散X射线发射的Fe XXV-K $α$线在6.67千电子伏的恒定通量相比。这种时间变化主要是由于M 0.66 $-$ 0.02; 6.40 keV线通量在2001年下降,并在1994- 2005年的时间跨度下降到60%。另一个G为0.570 $-$ 0.018的斑点只在2000年的钱德拉观测中才被发现。从Sgr B2复合体的长期时间变率($\sim$ 10年),我们推断银河系中心黑洞Sgr A $^*$在过去的300年中是X射线亮的,并表现出几年周期的时间变率。

英文摘要:

We investigate long-term X-ray behaviors from the Sgr B2 complex using archival data of the X-ray satellites Suzaku, XMM-Newton, Chandra and ASCA. The observed region of the Sgr B2 complex includes two prominent spots in the Fe I K-$α$ line at 6.40 keV, a giant molecular cloud M 0.66$-$0.02 known as the ``Sgr B2 cloud'' and an unusual X-ray source G 0.570$-$0.018. Although these 6.40 keV spots have spatial extensions of a few pc scale, the morphology and flux of the 6.40 keV line has been time variable for 10 years, in contrast to the constant flux of the Fe XXV-K$α$ line at 6.67 keV in the Galactic diffuse X-ray emission. This time variation is mostly due to M 0.66$-$0.02; the 6.40 keV line flux declined in 2001 and decreased to 60% in the time span 1994--2005. The other spot G 0.570$-$0.018 is found to be conspicuous only in the Chandra observation in 2000. From the long-term time variability ($\sim$10 years) of the Sgr B2 complex, we infer that the Galactic Center black hole Sgr A$^*$ was X-ray bright in the past 300 year and exhibited a time variability with a period of a few years.

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