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Title:
Radio Synchrotron Emission from Secondary Leptons in the Vicinity of Sagittarius A*
Authors:
Crocker, Roland M.; Jones, David; Ballantyne, David R.; Melia, Fulvio
Affiliation:
AA(School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; , .), AB(School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; , .; Australia Telescope National Facility, Marsfield, NSW 2122, Australia.), AC(Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 1118 East 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721; , .), AD(Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 1118 East 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721; , .; Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721.; Sir Thomas Lyle Fellow and Miegunyah Fellow.)
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 664, Issue 2, pp. L95-L98. (ApJL Homepage)
Publication Date:
08/2007
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
Galaxy: Center, Gamma Rays: Theory, Radiation Mechanisms: Nonthermal
DOI:
10.1086/520931
Bibliographic Code:
2007ApJ...664L..95C

Abstract

A pointlike source of ~1 TeV γ-rays has recently been seen toward the Galactic center by HESS and other air Cerenkov telescopes. In recent work, we demonstrated that these γ-rays can be attributed to high-energy protons that (1) are accelerated close to the event horizon of the central black hole, Sgr A*, (2) diffuse out to approximately parsec scales, and (3) finally interact to produce γ-rays. The same hadronic collision processes will necessarily lead to the creation of electrons and positrons. Here we calculate the synchrotron emissivity of these secondary leptons in the same magnetic field configuration through which the initiating protons have been propagated in our model. We compare this emission with the observed ~1 GHz radio spectrum of the inner few parsec region that we have assembled from archival data and new measurements that we have made with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We find that our model predicts secondary synchrotron emission with a steep slope, consistent with the observations but with an overall normalization that is too large by a factor of ~2. If we further constrain our theoretical γ-ray curve to obey the implicit EGRET upper limit on emission from this region, we predict radio emission that is consistent with observations; i.e., the hadronic model of gamma-ray emission can, simultaneously and without fine-tuning, also explain essentially all the diffuse radio emission detected from the inner few parsecs of the Galaxy.
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