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|a Garcia, M. R.
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|a MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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|a Baganoff, Frederick K.
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|a Hextall, Richard
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|a Melia, Fulvio
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|a Murray, Stephen S.
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|a Primini, F. A.
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|a Sjouwerman, Loránt O.
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|a Williams, Ben
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|a Baganoff, Frederick K
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|a X-RAY AND RADIO VARIABILITY OF M31*, THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY NUCLEAR SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE
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|a We confirm our earlier tentative detection of M31* in X-rays and measure its light curve and spectrum. Observations in 2004-2005 find M31* rather quiescent in the X-ray and radio. However, X-ray observations in 2006-2007 show M31* to be highly variable at times. A separate variable X-ray source is found near P1, the brighter of the two optical nuclei. The apparent angular Bondi radius of M31* is the largest of any black hole and large enough to be well resolved with Chandra. The diffuse emission within this Bondi radius is found to have an X-ray temperature ~0.3 keV and density 0.1 cm[superscript -3], indistinguishable from the hot gas in the surrounding regions of the bulge given the statistics allowed by the current observations. The X-ray source at the location of M31* is consistent with a point source and a power-law spectrum with energy slope 0.9 ± 0.2. Our identification of this X-ray source with M31* is based solely on positional coincidence.
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|a Chandra X-ray Center (U.S.) (Contract NAS8-03060)
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|a Chandra X-ray Center (U.S.) (Chandra grant GO-6088A)
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|t Astrophysical Journal
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