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Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, is known to be a variable source of X-ray, near-infrared (NIR), and submillimeter (submm) radiation and therefore a prime candidate to study the…

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

In this book chapter, we will briefly review the current empirical understanding of the relation between accretion state and and outflows in accreting stellar mass black holes. The focus will be on the empirical connections between X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Rob Fender , Elena Gallo

(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

A star that passes too close to a massive black hole will be torn apart by tidal forces. The flare of photons emitted during the accretion of the stellar debris is predicted to be observable and candidates of such events have been observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-23 Sjoert van Velzen , Elmar Koerding , Heino Falcke

We investigate various models of accretion disks for Sgr A*, one of the most puzzling sources in the Galaxy. The generic image we have taken into account consists of a black hole, an accretion disk, and a jet. Various accretion models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Donea , Heino Falcke , P. L. Biermann

PAPER WITHDRAWN. The recent detection of Sgr A* in the X-ray band, together with the radio polarization measurements conducted over the past few years, offer the best constraints yet for understanding the nature of the emitting gas within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fulvio Melia , Siming Liu , Marco Fatuzzo

Context. Magnetically arrested disks are among the most suitable candidates for describing the gas accretion and observed emission in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Aims. This work aims to provide a direct correlation between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-02 Eleni Antonopoulou , Argyrios Loules , Antonios Nathanail

The radio source Sgr A* at the center of our Galaxy is believed to be a 2.6 x 10^6 solar mass black hole which accretes gas from the winds of nearby stars. We show that limits on the X-ray and infrared emission from the Galactic Center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan , Mark Reid

We study ejection mechanisms for two kinds of steady jets: one observed from black hole binaries in the low/hard state and the other from SS433. The specific energy of the ejected gas is required to be positive for the jets to get to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-21 Hajime Inoue

We report on the final two days of a multiwavelength campaign of Sgr A* observing in the radio, submillimeter, infrared, and X-ray bands in July 2019. Sgr A* was remarkably active, showing multiple flaring events across the electromagnetic…

A cold neutral and extremely dim accretion disk may be present as a remnant of a past vigorous activity around the black hole in our Galactic Center (GC). Here we discuss ways to detect such a disk through its interaction with numerous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei Nayakshin , Rashid Sunyaev , .

We present the statistical analysis of 33 flare-related coronal jets, and discuss the link between the jet and the flare properties in these events. We selected jets that were observed between 2010 and 2016 by the Atmospheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Sophie Musset , Mariana Jeunon , Lindsay Glesener

The Galactic microquasar SS433 occasionally exhibits a major flare when the intensity of its emission increases significantly and rapidly. We present an analysis of high-resolution, almost-nightly optical spectra obtained before, during and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Katherine Blundell , Linda Schmidtobreick , Sergei Trushkin

The supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy, Sgr A*, is unique because the angular size of the black hole is the largest in the sky thus providing detailed boundary conditions on, and much less freedom for, accretion flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Feng Yuan

We present numerical simulations of stellar wind dynamics in the central parsec of the Galactic centre, studying in particular the accretion of gas on to Sgr A*, the super-massive black hole. Unlike our previous work, here we use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-08 Jorge Cuadra , Sergei Nayakshin , Fabrice Martins

We report the time-resolved spectral analysis of a bright near-infrared and moderate X-ray flare of Sgr A*. We obtained light curves in the $M$-, $K$-, and $H$-bands in the mid- and near-infrared and in the $2-8~\mathrm{keV}$ and…

We employ a low angular momentum accretion-outflow scenario to model the flares emanating out from the central region of Sgr A$^*$. The primary donor for matter accreting onto the central SMBH of Sgr A$^*$ is assumed to be the WR star ISR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tapas K. Das , Bozena Czerny

We examine the low angular momentum flow model for Sgr A* using two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations based on the parameters of the specific angular momentum and total energy estimated in the recent analysis of stellar wind of nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Toru Okuda , Diego Molteni

Using Chandra X-ray observations of 9 nearby, X-ray luminous ellipticals with good optical velocity dispersion measurements, we show that a tight correlation exists between the Bondi accretion rates calculated from the X-ray data and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 S. W. Allen , R. J. H. Dunn , A. C. Fabian , G. B. Taylor , C. S. Reynolds