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(Abridged) Sgr A$^\star$ is the electromagnetic counterpart of the accreting supermassive black hole in the Galactic center. Its emission is variable in the near-infrared (NIR) and X-ray wavelengths on short timescales. The physical origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 Maria Petropoulou , Gabriele Ponti , Giovanni Stel , Apostolos Mastichiadis

High-resolution observations with GRAVITY-VLTI instrument have provided abundant information about the flares in Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center, including the time-dependent location of the centroid (a "hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Lin Xi , Yuan Feng

We report on the polarized light curves of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, obtained at millimeter wavelength with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The observations took place as a part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-22 Maciek Wielgus , Monika Moscibrodzka , Jesse Vos , Zachary Gelles , Ivan Marti-Vidal , Joseph Farah , Nicola Marchili , Ciriaco Goddi , Hugo Messias

Episodically accreting black holes are thought to produce flares when a chunk of particles is accelerated to high velocity near the black hole horizon. This also seems to be the case of Sagittarius A* in the Galactic Center, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 V. Karas , M. Dovciak , A. Eckart , L. Meyer

The radio source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is believed to be a hot, inhomogeneous, magnetized plasma flowing near the event horizon of the 3 million solar mass black hole at the galactic center. At a distance of 8000 parsecs the black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott C. Noble , Po Kin Leung , Charles F. Gammie , Laura G. Book

Sgr A*, the 4 x 10^6 solar-mass supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, exhibits frequent flaring with X-ray luminosities of L_X ~ 10^35--10^36 erg s^-1, while its ultraviolet (UV) emission remains unconstrained due to extreme…

Sgr A* exhibits flares in the near-infrared and X-ray bands, with the luminosity in these bands increasing by factors of $10-100$ for $\approx 60$ minutes. One of the models proposed to explain these flares is synchrotron emission of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Nicolas Scepi , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

A radio source at the Galactic center Sgr A* is a prime supermassive black hole candidate and therefore key to developing our understanding of them. Time variations in the 230 GHz band flux of Sgr A* have been found with the Atacama Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Yuhei Iwata , Tomoharu Oka , Masato Tsuboi , Makoto Miyoshi , Shunya Takekawa

We report the detection of variable emission from Sgr A* in almost all wavelength bands (i.e. centimeter, millimeter, submillimeter, near-IR and X-rays) during a multi-wavelength observing campaign. Three new moderate flares are detected…

Context: Recent near-infrared polarization measurements of SgrA* show that its emission is significantly polarized during flares and consists of a non- or weakly polarized main flare with highly polarized sub-flares. The flare activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Meyer , A. Eckart , R. Schoedel , W. J. Duschl , K. Muzic , M. Dovciak , V. Karas

X-ray flares have been discovered in black hole systems, such as gamma-ray bursts, the tidal disruption event Swift J1644+57, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A$^*$ at the center of our Galaxy, and some active galactic nuclei. Their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , S. X. Yi , S. Q. Xi

Sgr A* is the variable electromagnetic source associated with accretion onto the Galactic center supermassive black hole. While the near-infrared (NIR) variability of Sgr A* was shown to be consistent over two decades, unprecedented…

We report the discovery of variability in the linear polarization from the Galactic Center black hole source, Sagittarius A*. New polarimetry obtained with the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array at a wavelength of 1.3 mm shows a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke , Melvyn C. H. Wright , Donald C. Backer

We present the first detection from the Spitzer Space Telescope of 4.5 micron variability from Sgr A*, the emitting source associated with the Milky Way's central black hole. The >23 hour continuous light curve was obtained with the IRAC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 J. L. Hora , G. Witzel , M. L. N. Ashby , E. E. Becklin , S. Carey , G. G. Fazio , A. Ghez , J. Ingalls , L. Meyer , M. R. Morris , H. A. Smith , S. P. Willner

We discuss mm-wavelength radio, 2.2-11.8um NIR and 2-10 keV X-ray light curves of the super massive black hole (SMBH) counterpart of Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) near its lowest and highest observed luminosity states. The luminosity during the…

The galactic central black hole Sgr A* exhibits outbursts of radiation in the near infrared (so-called IR flares). One model of these events consists in a hotspot orbiting on the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of the hole. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 F. H. Vincent , T. Paumard , G. Perrin , L. Mugnier , F. Eisenhauer , S. Gillessen

The radiative counterpart of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center (GC), Sgr A*, is subject to frequent flares visible simultaneously in X-rays and near-infrared (NIR). Often, enhanced radio variability from centimeter to…

The polarized mm/sub-mm radiation from Sgr A* is apparently produced by a Keplerian structure whose peak emission occurs within several Schwarzschild radii (r_S=2GM/c^2) of the black hole. The Chandra X-ray counterpart, if confirmed, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Fulvio Melia , Benjamin C. Bromley , Siming Liu , Christopher , K. Walker

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy, provides unique opportunities to study black hole accretion, jet formation, and gravitational physics. The rapid structural changes in Sgr A*'s emission pose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Jakob Knollmüller , Philipp Arras , Torsten Enßlin
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