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Chandra/HETGS Observations of the Brightest Flare Seen from Sgr A*

  • Authors: M. A. Nowak, J. Neilsen, S. B. Markoff, F. K. Baganoff, D. Porquet, N. Grosso, Y. Levin, J. Houck, A. Eckart, H. Falcke, L. Ji, J. M. Miller, and Q. D. Wang

Nowak et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal 759 95.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Top: for ObsID 14392, the summed zeroth- and first-order count rates (solid line) with 1σ errors (dotted line) during intervals found by the Bayesian Blocks algorithm (using a 98.2% significance level for each change point). The major flare start and stop times are 2012 February 9, 14:25:50 and 15:59:51 UTC. Bottom: for each Bayesian Block, after subtracting the mean quiescent level rate, the ratio of the zeroth-order rate to the summed first-order rates vs. the summed first-order rates. (Error bars are 1σ.) The light blue line is the expected correlation if the intrinsic (i.e., unpiled) zeroth-order rate is 1.7× the first-order rate and the pileup parameter α = 1.

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