Origin of Thermal and Non-Thermal Hard X-ray Emission from the Galactic Center
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🌌 astro-ph.GA
astro-ph.HE
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emissionfluxx-raycentergalacticgeneratedhardnon-thermal
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We analyse new results of Chandra and Suzaku which found a flux of hard X-ray emission from the compact region around Sgr A$^\ast$ (r ~ 100 pc). We suppose that this emission is generated by accretion processes onto the central supermassive blackhole when an unbounded part of captured stars obtains an additional momentum. As a result a flux of subrelativistic protons is generated near the Galactic center which heats the background plasma up to temperatures about 6-10 keV and produces by inverse bremsstrahlung a flux of non-thermal X-ray emission in the energy range above 10 keV.
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