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Stars orbiting within 1$\arcsec$ of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Centre, Sgr A*, are notoriously difficult to detect due to obscuration by gas and dust. We show that some stars orbiting this region may be detectable via…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Idan Ginsburg , Xiawei Wang , Abraham Loeb , Ofer Cohen

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

Observational implications are derived for two standard models of supernovae-driven galactic winds: a freely expanding steady-state wind and a wind sourced by a self-similarly expanding superbubble including thermal heat conduction. It is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Avery Meiksin

Hypersonic bipolar outflows are a ubiquitous phenomena associated with both young and highly evolved stars. Observations of Planetary Nebulae, the nebulae surrounding Luminous Blue Variables such as $\eta$ Carinae, Wolf Rayet bubbles, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Adam Frank

We identify a molecular bubble, and study the star formation and its feedback in the S Mon region, using multiple molecular lines, young stellar objects (YSOs), and infrared data. We revisit the distance to S Mon, ~722+/-9 pc, using Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-01 Dejian Liu , Ye Xu , YingJie Li , Zehao Lin , Chaojie Hao , WenJin Yang , Jingjing Li , Xinrong Liu , Yiwei Dong , Shuaibo Bian , and Deyun Kong

In this paper, we explore the significant, non-linear impact that stellar winds have on H ii regions. We perform a parameter study using three-dimensional radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulations of wind and ultraviolet radiation feedback…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-02 Sam Geen , Rebekka Bieri , Alex de Koter , Taysun Kimm , Joakim Rosdahl

Star formation feedback can drive large-scale, multi-phase galactic outflows. The dynamical and thermodynamical interaction between the hot and cooler phases is a prime focus of both observational and theoretical work. Here, we analyze…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-11 Sebastian Lopez , Laura A. Lopez , Todd A. Thompson , Adam K. Leroy , Alberto D. Bolatto

Context. The recent detection of warm H$_2$O vapor emission from the outflows of carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars challenges the current understanding of circumstellar chemistry. Two mechanisms have been invoked to explain…

Massive stars drive the evolution of the interstellar medium through their radiative and mechanical energy input. After their birth, they form bubbles of hot gas surrounded by a dense shell. Traditionally, the formation of bubbles is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 B. B. Ochsendorf , S. Verdolini , N. L. J. Cox , O. Berné , L. Kaper , A. G. G. M. Tielens

The density profile of the ambient medium around a supermassive black hole plays an important role in understanding the inflow-outflow mechanisms in the Galactic Centre. We constrain the spherical density profile using the stellar bow shock…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 S. Elaheh Hosseini , Michal Zajaček , Andreas Eckart , Nadeen B. Sabha , Lucas Labadie

The Bloated Stars Scenario proposes that AGN broad line emission originates in the winds or envelopes of bloated stars (BS). Its main advantage over BLR cloud models is the gravitational confinement of the gas and its major difficulty the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tal Alexander , Hagai Netzer

The exact nature of eta Carinae is still an open issue. In this paper we assume a binary system to explain the strong X-ray emission, but we also take into account that, near periastron and because of the highly eccentric orbit, the wind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Falceta-Goncalves , V. Jatenco-Pereira , Z. Abraham

Sagittarius A*, the super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is surrounded by a small cluster of high velocity stars, known as the S-stars. We aim to constrain the amount and nature of stellar and dark mass associated with…

By using the particle-based code Gadget2, we follow the evolution of a gas clump, in which a gravitational collapse is initially induced. The particles representing the gas clump have initially a velocity according to a turbulent spectrum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 Guillermo Arreaga-Garcia , Silvio Oreste Topa

The Bloated Stars Scenario proposes that AGN broad line emission originates in the winds or envelopes of bloated stars (BS). Alexander and Netzer (1994) established that ~ 5e4 BSs with dense, decelerating winds can reproduce the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tal Alexander , Hagai Netzer

In the last several years, a number of observing campaigns of the massive black hole Sgr A* has been carried out in order to address two important issues: one concerns the underluminous nature of Sgr A* with its bolometric luminosity being…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle

Winds from massive stars supply ~ 10^{-3} solar masss/year of gas to the central parsec of the Galactic Center. Spherically symmetric hydrodynamic calculations show that ~ 1 % of this gas, or ~ 10^{-5} solar masses/year, flows in towards…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eliot Quataert

We model the interaction between the wind from a newly formed rapidly rotating magnetar and the surrounding progenitor. In the first few seconds after core collapse the magnetar inflates a bubble of plasma and magnetic fields behind the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert , J. Arons , B. D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson

Stars with outflows interacting with ambient gas experience accelerations arising from the gravitational feedback induced by the interaction structure. In this work, three-dimensional (3D) local shearing box simulations are performed to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Muxin Liu , Lile Wang , Peng Peng

We present Athena++ grid-based, hydrodynamic simulations of accretion onto Sagittarius A* via the stellar winds of the $\sim 30$ Wolf-Rayet stars within the central parsec of the galactic center. These simulations span $\sim$ 4 orders of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone