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Table 1

Parameters of the reflection model TBabs (CREFL16cont+CREFL16fluor).

Region NH 1022 cm−2 Γ τT µ A Normcont 10−2 per arcmin2 Normfluor 10−2 per arcmin2 Frac3−6,cont
Sgr A, r = 4.5′ (excl. br&nt) 7.0 1.8 13.0 −0.3 1.0 1.7 ± 0.1 1.2 ± 0.1 0.24
Sgr A, bright r = 1′ 5.9 ± 0.25 3.6 ± 0.25 0.46

Notes. The spectral shape was derived from spectral analysis of the time-variable diffuse emission in Chandra data and only normalizations were adjusted to best fit the full spectra (together with other components). Normalization was adjusted by a constant factor 0.85 to match IXPE Stokes I spectra for the same regions. The columns show absorbing column density (NH), incident powerlaw index Γ, optical depth of the cloud τT, cosine of the scattering angle µ, abundance of heavy elements with respect to the Solar values A (see Churazov et al. 2017a for a detailed description of the CREFL16 model), and they were fixed at values found in combined epoch-resolved XMM-Newton and Chandra spectroscopy performed in Marin et al. (2023). The normalizations (defined per arcmin2) of the continuum (Normcont) and of the fluorescent lines (Normfluor) components of this model were mutually untied and independently fitted for the regions of interest here (the uncertainties correspond to 1σ confidence intervals). Intrinsic model’s normalization equal to 10−2 corresponds to unabsorbed 3–8 keV flux of 9.1 × 10−14 erg s−1 cm−2 and 4.2 × 10−14 erg s−1 cm−2 for the continuum and fluorescent components respectively. The last column, Frac3−6,cont, gives the relative contribution of the reflected continuum to the total 3–6 keV flux from these regions.

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