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The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way undergoes regular flaring activity which is thought to arise from the innermost region of the accretion flow. We performed the monitoring observations of…

We model molecular outflows produced by the time dependent interaction between a stellar wind and a rotating cloud envelope in gravitational collapse, studied by Ulrich. We consider spherical and anisotropic stellar winds. We assume that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 J. A. López-Vázquez , J. Cantó , S. Lizano

The source of emission from Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, is still unknown. Flares and data from multiwavelength campaigns provide important clues about the nature of Sgr A* itself. Here we attempt to constrain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Dipankar Maitra , Sera Markoff , Heino Falcke

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

Observations of $\rm SgrA^*$ have provided a lot of insight on low-luminosity accretion, with a handful of bright flares accompanied with orbital motion close to the horizon. It has been proposed that gas supply comes from stellar winds in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Antonios Nathanail , Prasun Dhang , Christian M. Fromm

The relatively rapid spatial and temporal variability of the X-ray radiation from some molecular clouds near the Galactic center shows that this emission component is due to the reflection of X-rays generated by a source that was luminous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Maïca Clavel , R. Terrier , A. Goldwurm , M. R. Morris , G. Ponti , S. Soldi , G. Trap

High rates of stable mass transfer likely occur for some binary star systems, but the resulting flow of mass and angular momentum (AM) is unclear. We perform hydrodynamical simulations of a polytropic donor star and a point mass secondary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Peter Scherbak , Wenbin Lu , Jim Fuller

We study the properties of the shock waves for a viscous accretion flow having low angular momentum in presence of synchrotron cooling. We present all possible accretion solutions in terms of flow parameters. We identify the region of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Santabrata Das , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We present results of recent observations and theoretical modeling of data from black holes accreting at very low luminosities (L/L_Edd ~ 10^{-8}). We discuss our newly developed time-dependent model for episodic ejection of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Dipankar Maitra , Andrew Cantrell , Sera Markoff , Heino Falcke , Jon Miller , Charles Bailyn

We introduce our project, AGNSTRONG (Active Galactic Nuclei and STaR fOrmation in Nearby Galaxies). Our research goals encompass investigating the kinematic properties of ionized and molecular gas outflows, understanding the impact of AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-16 Huynh Anh N. Le , Chen Qin , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Kim Ngan N. Nguyen , Ruisong Xia , Xiaozhi Lin

The time-scales of the variabilities in changing look (CL) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are usually at the order of years to tens of years (some of them are even shorter than one year), which are much shorter than the viscous timescale of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-29 Junjie Feng , Xinwu Cao , Jia-wen Li , Wei-Min Gu

The candidate supermassive black hole in the Galactic Centre, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is known to be fed by a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF), inferred by its low accretion rate. Consequently, radiative cooling has in general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Doosoo Yoon , Koushik Chatterjee , Sera Markoff , David van Eijnatten , Ziri Younsi , Matthew Liska , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

The vicinity of the supermassive black hole associated with the compact radio source Sagittarius (Sgr) A* is believed to dominate the observed emission at wavelengths near and shorter than $\sim$ 1 millimeter. We show that a general…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Lei Huang , Rohta Takahashi , Zhi-Qiang Shen

A radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF), which is commonly characterized by its sub-Keplerian nature, is a favored accretion model for the supermassive black hole at Galactic center, Sagittarius A$^{*}$. To investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Hung-Yi Pu , Kazunori Akiyama , Keiichi Asada

Shocks produced by the accretion of infalling gas in the outskirt of galaxy clusters are expected in the hierarchical structure formation scenario, as found in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Here, we report the detection of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 G. Hurier , R. Adam , U. Keshet

In this paper we examine properties of the variable source Sgr A* in the near-infrared (NIR) using a very extensive Ks-band data set from NACO/VLT observations taken 2004 to 2009. We investigate the variability of Sgr A* with two different…

An important parameter in the theory of hot accretion flows around black holes is $\delta$, which describes the fraction of ``viscously'' dissipated energy in the accretion flow that goes directly into heating electrons. For a given mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Fu-Guo Xie , Ramesh Narayan , Feng Yuan

Sgr A* is probably the supermassive black hole being investigated most extensively due to its proximity. Several theoretical models for its steady state emission have been proposed in the past two decades. Both the radiative-inefficient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang

Based on Bremer et al. (2011) and Eckart et al. (2012) we report on simultaneous observations and modeling of the millimeter, near-infrared, and X-ray flare emission of the source Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) associated with the super-massive…

We analyzed 11 epochs of archival Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) data to investigate flux density variability of Sgr A* at 340 GHz. In one epoch, the light curve exhibits two short-timescale components with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Kazuki Yanagisawa , Tomoharu Oka , Tatsuya Kotani , Ryo Ariyama , Kazuki Yanagihara , Yuhei Iwata