X-ray polarization evidence for a 200-yearold flare of Sgr A

The centre of the Milky Way Galaxy hosts a black hole with a solar mass of about 4million (Sagittarius A· (Sgr A)) that is very quiescent at present with a luminosity many orders of magnitude below those of active galactic nuclei1. Reflection of X-rays from Sgr A· by dense gas in the Galactic Centre...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature (London) 2023-07, Vol.619 (7968), p.41-45H
Hauptverfasser: Marin, Frédéric, Churazov, Eugene, Khabibullin, Ildar, Ferrazzoli, Riccardo, Di Gesu, Laura, Di Marco, Alessandro, Middei, Riccardo, Vikhlinin, Alexey, Costa, Enrico, Soffitta, Paolo, Muleri, Fabio, Sunyaev, Rashid, man, William, Kraft, Ralph, Bianchi, Stefano, Donnarumma, Immacolata, Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier, Enoto, Teruaki, Agudo, Iván, Antonelli, Lucio A, Bachetti, Matteo, Baldini, Luca, Baumgartner, Wayne H, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Bongiorno, Stephen D, Bonino, Raffaella, Brez, Alessandro, Capitanio, Fiamma, Castellano, Simone, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Chen, Chien-Ting, Ciprini, Stefano, De Rosa, Alessandra, Del Monte, Ettore, Di Lalla, Niccolò, Doroshenko, Victor, Dovčiak, Michal, Ehlert, Steven R, Evangelista, Yuri, Fabiani, Sergio, Garcia, Javier A, Gunji, Shuichi, Hayashida, Kiyoshi, Heyl, Jeremy, Ingram, Adam, Iwakiri, Wataru, Jorstad, Svetlana G, Kaaret, Philip, Karas, Vladimir, Kitaguchi, Takao, Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J, Krawczynski, Henric, La Monaca, Fabio, Latronico, Luca, Liodakis, Ioannis, Maldera, Simone, Manfreda, Alberto, Marinucci, Andrea, Marscher, Alan P, Marshall, Herman L, Massaro, Francesco, Matt, Giorgio, Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki, Mizuno, Tsunefumi, O'Dell, Stephen L, Omodei, Nicola, Oppedisano, Chiara, Papitto, Alessandro, Pavlov, George G, Peirson, Abel L, Perri, Matteo, Pesce-Rollins, Melissa, Pilia, Maura, Possenti, Andrea, Poutanen, Juri, Puccetti, Simonetta, Ramsey, Brian D, Rankin, John, Ratheesh, Ajay, Roberts, Oliver J, Romani, Roger W, Sgrò, Carmelo, Slane, Patrick, Spandre, Gloria, Swartz, Doug, Tamagawa, Toru, Tavecchio, Fabrizio, Taverna, Roberto, Tawara, Yuzuru, Tennant, Allyn F, Thomas, Nicholas E, Tombesi, Francesco, Trois, Alessio, Tsygankov, Sergey S, Turolla, Roberto, Vink, Jacco, Weisskopf, Martin C, Wu, Kinwah, Xie, Fei, Zane, Silvia
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Tsygankov, Sergey S
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Vink, Jacco
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Wu, Kinwah
Xie, Fei
Zane, Silvia
description The centre of the Milky Way Galaxy hosts a black hole with a solar mass of about 4million (Sagittarius A· (Sgr A)) that is very quiescent at present with a luminosity many orders of magnitude below those of active galactic nuclei1. Reflection of X-rays from Sgr A· by dense gas in the Galactic Centre region offers a means to study its past flaring activity on timescales of hundreds and thousands of years2. The shape ofthe X-ray continuum and the strong fluorescent iron line observed from giant molecular clouds in the vicinity of Sgr A· are consistent with the reflection scenario3-5. If this interpretation is correct, the reflected continuum emission should be polarized6. Here we report observations of polarized X-ray emission in the direction of the molecular clouds in the Galactic Centre using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. We measure a polarization degree of 31% ± 11%, and a polarization angle of -48° ± 11°. The polarization angle is consistent with Sgr A· being the primary source of the emission, and the polarization degree implies that some 200 years ago, the X-ray luminosity of Sgr A· was briefly comparable to that of a Seyfert galaxy.
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Reflection of X-rays from Sgr A· by dense gas in the Galactic Centre region offers a means to study its past flaring activity on timescales of hundreds and thousands of years2. The shape ofthe X-ray continuum and the strong fluorescent iron line observed from giant molecular clouds in the vicinity of Sgr A· are consistent with the reflection scenario3-5. If this interpretation is correct, the reflected continuum emission should be polarized6. Here we report observations of polarized X-ray emission in the direction of the molecular clouds in the Galactic Centre using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. We measure a polarization degree of 31% ± 11%, and a polarization angle of -48° ± 11°. The polarization angle is consistent with Sgr A· being the primary source of the emission, and the polarization degree implies that some 200 years ago, the X-ray luminosity of Sgr A· was briefly comparable to that of a Seyfert galaxy.</abstract><cop>London</cop><pub>Nature Publishing Group</pub><doi>10.1038/s41586-023-06064-x</doi></addata></record>
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subjects Black holes
Continuum radiation
Emission
Emissions
Fluorescence
Galaxies
Luminosity
Milky Way
Molecular clouds
Polarimetry
Polarization
Seyfert galaxies
X ray imagery
X ray reflection
X-ray astronomy
X-ray emissions
X-rays
title X-ray polarization evidence for a 200-yearold flare of Sgr A
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