We have performed the monitoring observations of flux density of Sagittarius A* at short millimeter wavelengths (100 and 140 GHz bands) on seven years in the period from 1996 to 2003 using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA). We found intra-day variation of Sgr A* in March 2000 flare. The flux density at the peak of the flares increases 100-200 % at 100 GHz and 200-400 % at 140 GHz (?DeltaS/S), respectively. The two-fold increase timescale of the flare is estimated to be about 1.5 hours at 140 GHz. The intra-day variation at mm-wavelengths has similar increase timescale as those in the X-ray and infrared flares but has smaller amplitude. This short timescale variability suggests that the physical size of the emitting region is smaller than 12 AU ?approx 150 Rs). The decay timescale of the flare was at most 24 hours. Such a light curve with rapid increase and slow decay is similar to that often observed in outburst phenomena with ejections.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0407252,
title = {Intra-Day Variation of Sagittarius A* at Short Millimeter Wavelengths},
author = {Atsushi Miyazaki and Takahiro Tsutsumi and Masato Tsuboi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0407252},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJL