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SS433 is an exotic Galactic microquasar in which there is a supercritical inflow of matter into a compact object of likely black hole nature. Here we report on an SS433 flare that occurred during a TESS observation of Sector 54 in June of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Idel Waisberg

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

We present a study of the Arches cluster based on XMM-Newton observations performed over the past 8 years. Unexpectedly, we find that the X-ray emission associated with the cluster experienced a marked brightening in March/April 2007. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Renzo Capelli , Robert S. Warwick , Nico Cappelluti , Stefan Gillessen , Peter Predehl , Delphine Porquet , Stefan Czesla

Sgr A* is the variable electromagnetic source associated with accretion onto the Galactic center supermassive black hole. While the near-infrared (NIR) variability of Sgr A* was shown to be consistent over two decades, unprecedented…

We consider the absorption and scattering of X-rays observed from the Galactic center. One objective is to characterize the intrinsic X-ray emission from the central black hole, SgrA*, in its quiescent and flaring states. We correct the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan C. Tan , B. T. Draine

We report new infrared measurements of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, Sgr A*, over a decade that was previously inaccessible at these wavelengths. This enables a variability study that addresses variability timescales…

This paper presents the Suzaku results obtained for the Sagittarius (Sgr) C region using the concept of X-ray reflection nebulae (XRNe) as the echo of past flares from the super massive black hole, Sgr A*. The Sgr C complex is composed of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-02 Syukyo Gando Ryu , Masayoshi Nobukawa , Shinya Nakashima , Takeshi Go Tsuru , Katsuji Koyama , Hideki Uchiyama

In 240 days of X-ray monitoring of M82, we have discovered an X-ray periodicity at $62.0 \pm 2.5$ days with a peak to peak amplitude corresponding to an isotropic luminosity of $2.4 \times 10^{40} \rm erg s^{-1}$ in M82 and an X-ray flare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Philip Kaaret , Melanie G. Simet , Cornelia C. Lang

We report the detection of variable emission from Sgr A* in almost all wavelength bands (i.e. centimeter, millimeter, submillimeter, near-IR and X-rays) during a multi-wavelength observing campaign. Three new moderate flares are detected…

In 2019, the Galactic center black hole Sgr A* produced an unusually high number of bright near-infrared flares, including the brightest-ever detected flare (Do et al 2019, Gravity Collaboration 2020). We propose that this activity was…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-09 Lena Murchikova

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 three previous papers I showed that the series of the midpoints of the times of all the X-ray flares of Sgr A* that have been detected so far harbor a statistical trend termed pacemaker regularity. This means that X-ray flares are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Elia Leibowitz

Sagittarius~A$^*$, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, exhibits flares across various wavelengths, yet their origins remain elusive. We performed 3D two-temperature General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Indu K. Dihingia , Feng Yuan , Xi Lin , Christian M. Fromm , Antonios Nathanail , Ziri Younsi

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

The X-ray light curves of pre-main sequence stars can show variability in the form of flares altering a baseline characteristic activity level; the largest X-ray flares are characterized by a rapid rise to more than 10 times the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jacqueline McCleary , Scott Wolk

Context. The compact radio and near-infrared (NIR) source Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) associated with the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center was observed at 7 mm in the context of a NIR triggered global Very Long Baseline Array…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 C. Rauch , E. Ros , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Eckart , J. A. Zensus , B. Shahzamanian , K. Muzic

Over the last 3 yrs, the Galactic center (GC) region has been monitored with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. With 11 Chandra observations through 2002 June, the total effective exposure reaches ~590 ks, providing significant photon…

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…

Sgr A* exhibits flaring in the infrared several times each day, occasionally accompanied by flaring in X-rays. The infrared flares are believed to arise through synchrotron emission from a transient population of accelerated electrons. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-07-13 Mark Wardle
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