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arxiv: astro-ph/0609310 · v1 · submitted 2006-09-12 · 🌌 astro-ph

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Discoveries of Diffuse Iron Line Sources from the Sgr B Region

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The radio complex Sgr B region is observed with the X-Ray Imaging Spectrometers (XIS) on board Suzaku. This region exhibits diffuse iron lines at 6.4, 6.7 and 6.9 keV, which are K$\alpha$ lines of Fe \emissiontype{I} (neutral iron), Fe\emissiontype{XXV} (He-like iron) and Fe\emissiontype{XXVI} (H-like iron), respectively. The high energy resolving power of the XIS provides the separate maps of the K-shell transition lines from Fe\emissiontype{I} (6.4 keV) and Fe\emissiontype{XXV} (6.7 keV). Although the 6.7 keV line is smoothly distributed over the Sgr B region, a local excess is found near at $(l, b) = (\timeform {0D.61}, \timeform{0D.01})$, possibly a new SNR. The plasma temperature is \textit{kT} $\sim$3 keV and the age is estimated to be around several$\times10^{3}$ years. The 6.4 keV image is clumpy with local excesses nearby Sgr B2 and at $(l, b) = (\timeform{0D.74}, -\timeform{0D.09})$. Like Sgr B2, this excess may be another candidate of an X-ray reflection nebula (XRN).

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