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First results from the NuSTAR “mini-survey” of the Galactic center region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2014

Charles J. Hailey  and
the NuSTAR Team
Charles J. Hailey
Affiliation:
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025 email: chuckh@astro.columbia.edu
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Abstract

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One of the major science objectives of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observatory is to perform the first sub-arcminute, hard X-ray survey of several square degrees of the Galactic plane, centered on a region near the Galactic center. As a prelude to the full survey, which began in July 2013, NuSTAR conducted a ∼500 ks, 0.3 × 0.4° “mini-survey” focused on Sgr A* and its environs. We present analysis of several candidate pulsar wind nebulae and filaments, which are revealed to be intense sources of X-ray emission at >10 keV.

Keywords

Sgr A*CannonballSgr A-ESgr A East
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 9 , Symposium S303: The Galactic Center: Feeding and Feedback in a Normal Galactic Nucleus , October 2013 , pp. 439 - 443
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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