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We summarize recent observations and modeling of the brightest Sgr A* flare to be observed simultaneously in (near)-infrared and X-rays to date. Trying to explain the spectral characteristics of this flare through inverse Compton mechanisms…

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

Black hole accretion flows can be divided into two broad classes: cold and hot. Cold accretion flows, which consist of cool optically thick gas, are found at relatively high mass accretion rates. Prominent examples are the standard thin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Feng Yuan , Ramesh Narayan

Energetic flares are observed in the Galactic supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* from radio to X-ray wavelengths. On a few occasions, simultaneous flares have been detected in IR and X-ray observations, but clear counterparts at longer…

Flares from the supermassive black hole in our Galaxy, Sagittarius~A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), are routinely observed over the last decade or so. Despite numerous observational and theoretical efforts, the nature of such flares still remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang

We present the first systematic analysis of the X-ray variability of Sgr A* during the Chandra X-ray Observatory's 2012 Sgr A* X-ray Visionary Project (XVP). With 38 High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) observations spaced…

We examine the dynamical behavior of accretion flow around XTE J1859+226 during the 1999 outburst by analyzing the entire outburst data ($\sim$ 166 days) from RXTE Satellite. Towards this, we study the hysteresis behavior in the hardness…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 A. Nandi , S. Mandal , H. Sreehari , D. Radhika , S. Das , I. Chattopadhyay , N. Iyer , V. K. Agrawal , R. Aktar

We study the energetics of the accretion-induced outflow and then plausible jet around black holes/compact objects using a newly developed disc-outflow coupled model. Inter-connecting dynamics of outflow and accretion essentially upholds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-28 Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Vinod Krishan , Manoranjan Khan

Despite the prevalence of jets in accreting systems and their impact on the surrounding medium, the fundamental physics of how they are launched and collimated is not fully understood. Radio observations of local compact objects, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Deanne L. Coppejans , James C. A. Miller-Jones , Elmar G. Koerding , Gregory R. Sivakoff , Michael P. Rupen

The radio source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is thought to be a supermassive black hole located at the centre of our Galaxy, that is accreting gas from the surrounding region. Using the high inferred accretion rates, however, standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rohan Mahadevan

Despite advances in our understanding of low luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs), the fundamental details about the mechanisms of radiation and flare/outburst in hot accretion flow are still largely missing. We have systematically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 S. Niu , F. G. Xie , Q. D. Wang , L. Ji , F. Yuan , M. Long

Simultaneous multiwavelength observations were recently performed for three black hole candidates --- SWIFT J1753.5-0127, GRO J1655-40 and XTE J1720-318. In this paper we test the accretion-jet model originally proposed to XTE J1118+480 by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Hui Zhang , Feng Yuan , Sylvain Chaty

We present high-resolution multiwavelength radio continuum images of the region within 150$"$ of Sgr A*, revealing a number of new extended features and stellar sources in this region. First, we detect a continuous 2" east-west ridge of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle , R. Schödel , D. A. Roberts , W. Cotton , H. Bushouse , R. Arendt , M. Royster

LSI+61303 is one of the most observed Be/X-ray binary systems because, peculiarly, it has periodical radio and X-ray emission together with strong, variable gamma-ray emission. This source remains, however, quite enigmatic. Some properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maria Massi

A pair of giant gamma-ray bubbles have been revealed by the {\it Fermi} LAT. In this paper we investigate their formation mechanism. Observations have indicated that the activity of the supermassive black hole located at the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Guobin Mou , Feng Yuan , Defu Bu , Mouyuan Sun , Meng Su

The inward flow of matter through accretion disks is driven by MHD turbulence. Global general relativistic MHD simulations shed quantitative light on this process, revealing a number of aspects of accretion previously unrecognized. Among…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Krolik , J. F. Hawley

The global structure of optically thin advection dominated accretion flows which are composed of two-temperature plasma around black holes is calculated. We adopt the full set of basic equations including the advective energy transport in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Manmoto , S. Mineshige , M. Kusunose

We present the first fully simultaneous fits to the NIR and X-ray spectral slope (and its evolution) during a very bright flare from Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center. Our study arises from ambitious…

Recent observations of SgrA* by the GRAVITY instrument have astrometrically tracked infrared flares (IR) at distances of $\sim 10$ gravitational radii ($r_g$). In this paper, we study a model for the flares based on 3D general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 O. Porth , Y. Mizuno , Z. Younsi , C. M. Fromm

The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Galaxy flares at least daily in the infrared (IR) and X-ray bands, yet the process driving these flares is still unknown. So far detailed analysis has only been performed on a few bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Salome Dibi , Sera Markoff , Renaud Belmont , Julien Malzac , Joey Neilsen , Gunther Witzel