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[en] The Galactic center (GC) region has been known to exhibit strong enhancements of hot diffuse plasma, which is characterized by the highly ionized Fe-K fluorescence line. Based on past X-ray observations with Ginga, ASCA, and RXTE, in the Galactic plane or bulge region, a non-thermal emission, so-called the 'hard-tail', has been confirmed to dominate the hard X-ray flux above 10 keV, and an association was found between surface brightnesses of the thermal and non-thermal components despite the completely different emission mechanism. Therefore, it is obviously important to investigate an existence of the hard-tail at GC with the unprecedented sensitivity of the HXD onboard Suzaku. By combining its narrow field-of-view of 30' and X-ray images simultaneously obtained by the XIS below 10 keV, an extensive investigation of spectral and spatial properties of the GC hard X-ray emission can be for the first time realized. We will report on results from seven pointings around GC, with a total exposure of 300 ks, performed in the performance verification phase of Suzaku. Strong hard X-ray signals were clearly detected in every observation by HXD-PIN in 10-70 keV range with a few tenth mCrab level intensities. (author)
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SUZAKU 2006: The extreme universe in the Suzaku era; Kyoto (Japan); 4-8 Dec 2006; 12 refs., 5 figs., 2 tabs.
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Progress of Theoretical Physics, Supplement; ISSN 0375-9687;
; (no.169); p. 109-112

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