Excess Fe XXV emission in the GC and the corresponding X-ray, infrared, and Model 2 latitudinal profiles. Top: Fe XXV excess emission attributed to diffuse emission after removing the unresolved point-source emission using Model 2 and 1:1 scaling. Bottom: XMM-Newton longitudinal profile of the overall 6.7 keV emission covering the central 2° along with the scaled Spitzer and Model 2 profiles. Bumps on the longitudinal X-ray profile coincide with high-excess regions which are of known origin. For a detailed description see Sect. 3.2.