{
  "id": "1305.3915",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2013-05-16T20:00:01.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-05-16T20:00:01.000Z",
  "title": "H3+ Spectroscopy and the Ionization Rate of Molecular Hydrogen in the Central Few Parsecs of the Galaxy",
  "authors": [
    "M. Goto",
    "Nick Indriolo",
    "T. R. Geballe",
    "T. Usuda"
  ],
  "comment": "18 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication at the Journal of Physical Chemistry A \"Oka Festschrift: Celebrating 45 Years of Astrochemistry\"",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.GA"
  ],
  "abstract": "We report observations and analysis of infrared spectra of H3+ and CO lines in the Galactic center, within a few parsecs of the central black hole, Sgr A*. We find a cosmic ray ionization rate typically an order of magnitude higher than outside the Galactic center. Notwithstanding, the elevated cosmic ray ionization rate is 4 orders of magnitude too short to match the proton energy spectrum as inferred from the recent discovery of the TeV gamma-ray source in the vicinity of Sgr A*.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2013-05-16T20:00:01.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "molecular hydrogen",
      "spectroscopy",
      "elevated cosmic ray ionization rate",
      "galactic center",
      "central black hole"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1021/jp400017s",
      "journal": "Journal of Physical Chemistry A",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "Oct",
      "volume": 117,
      "number": 39,
      "pages": 9919
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 18,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1233824,
      "adsabs": "2013JPCA..117.9919G"
    }
  }
}