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Illumination of dense gas in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) by powerful X-ray flares from Sgr A* leads to prominent structures in the reflected emission that can be observed long after the end of the flare. By studying this emission we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 E. Churazov , I. Khabibullin , R. Sunyaev , G. Ponti

One of the most impressive recent discovery of SWIFT is the evidence that X-ray flares occurring during the GRB afterglows are quite common, being observed in roughly 50% of the afterglows. These X-ray flares range fluences comparable with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Massaro , J. E. Grindlay

We have carried out Very Large Array (VLA) continuum observations to study the variability of Sgr A* at 43 GHz ($\lambda$=7mm) and 22 GHz ($\lambda$=13mm). A low level of flare activity has been detected with a duration of $\sim$ 2 hours at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Yusef-Zadeh , D. Roberts , M. Wardle , C. O. Heinke , G. C. Bower

We study afterglow flares of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the framework of the late internal shock (LIS) model based on a careful description for the dynamics of a pair of shocks generated by a collision between two homogeneous shells,.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 Y. W. Yu , Z. G. Dai

We study the environment of Sgr A* using spectral and continuum observations with the ALMA and VLA. Our analysis of sub-arcsecond H30alpha, H39alpha, H52alpha and H56alpha line emission towards Sgr A* confirm the recently published broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Royster , M. Wardle , W. Cotton , D. Kunneriath , I. Heywood , J. Michail

We have collected in 2004 adaptive optics corrected L' images of the Galactic Center region with NAOS-CONICA at VLT. A strong variability was observed as well as a correlation between the photocenter positions and fluxes of the L'-band…

The magnetar SGR J1935+2154 entered a new active episode on October 10, 2022, with X-ray bursts and enhanced persistent emission. At the tail of high burst rate interval, lasting several hours, radio bursts were detected, revealing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Fu Yu-Cong , Lin Lin , Ge Ming-Yu , Enoto Teruaki , Hu Chin-Ping , Younes George , Göğüş Ersin , Malacaria Christian

EGRET (20 MeV to 30 GeV) on board the Compton GRO has observed high-energy emission from about 40-50 Active Galactic Nuclei. Theoretical models of this emission based on the upscattering of thermal disk photons by cooling, relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 Marco Fatuzzo , Fulvio Melia

We present a spectrum of Sgr A* observed simultaneously on June 17, 2003 at wavelengths from 90 to 0.7 cm with the VLA. In the spectrum, we also include the measurements of Sgr A* observed on the same day with the GMRT at 49 cm, the SMA at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. An , J. -H. Zhao , X. -Y. Hong , Z. -Q. Shen , W. M. Goss , S. Roy , A. P. Rao

X-ray flares are generally supposed to be produced by the later central engine activities, and may share the similar physical origin with prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this paper, we have analyzed all significant X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 Shuang-Xi Yi , Shao-Qiang Xi , Hai Yu , F. Y. Wang , Hui-Jun Mu , Lian-Zhong Lv , En-Wei Liang

The accretion flow around the Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is expected to have an electron temperature that is distinct from the ion temperature, due to weak Coulomb coupling in the low-density plasma. We present four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-31 Andrew Chael , Michael E. Rowan , Ramesh Narayan , Michael D. Johnson , Lorenzo Sironi

Flows of synchrotron-emitting material can be found in several astrophysical contexts, including extragalactic jets and pulsar-wind nebulae (PWNe). For X-ray synchrotron emission, flow times are often longer than electron radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 S. P. Reynolds

We present a model for the gamma-ray emission of pulsars in terms of curvature radiation by highly relativistic particles. It is shown that the injection of power-law primary particles from an outer gap and subsequent cooling by curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Crusius-Waetzel , H. Lesch

Observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) in near-infrared (NIR) show irregular flaring activity. Flares coincide with astrometric rotation of brightness centroid and with looping patterns in fractional linear polarization. These signatures…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 A. I. Yfantis , M. Wielgus , M. A. Mościbrodzka

Previous studies have considered synchrotron as the emission mechanism for prompt Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). These works have shown that the electrons must cool on a timescale comparable to the dynamic time at the source in order to satisfy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Paz Beniamini , Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Dimitrios Giannios

We present the analyses of intense X-ray flares detected on the active fast rotator AB Dor using observations from the XMM-Newton. A total of 21 flares are detected, and 13 flares are analysed in detail. The total X-ray energy of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Shweta Didel , Jeewan C. Pandey , A. K. Srivastava , Gurpreet Singh

Previously detected in only a few gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), X-ray flares are now observed in ~50% of Swift GRBs, though their origins remain unclear. Most flares are seen early on in the afterglow decay, while some bursts exhibit flares at…

Context. Blazar AO 0235+164, located at redshift z = 0.94, has undergone several sharp multi-spectral-range flaring episodes during the last decades. In particular, the episodes peaking in 2008 and 2015, that received extensive…

Here we present the study of a compact emission source during an X1.3 flare on 2022-March-30. Within a $\sim41$~s period (17:34:48 UT to 17:35:29 UT), IRIS observations show spectral lines of Mg II, C II and Si IV with extremely broadened,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Yan Xu , Graham S. Kerr , Vanessa Polito , Nengyi Huang , Ju Jing , Haimin Wang

Mrk 590 is a Changing Look AGN currently in an unusual repeat X-ray and UV flaring state. Here, we report on deep X-ray observations with XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, and NICER, obtained at a range of X-ray flux levels. We detect a prominent soft…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-18 Daniel Lawther , Marianne Vestergaard , Sandra Raimundo , Xiaohui Fan , Jun Yi Koay
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