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We present the result of 6 years monitoring of SgrA*, radio source associated to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. Single dish observations were performed with the Itapetinga radio telescope at 7 mm, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-11-01 Pedro Paulo B. Beaklini , Zulema Abraham

The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is located at the dynamical center of the Milky Way. In a recent study of the X-ray flaring activity from Sgr A* using Chandra, XMM-Newton and Swift data from 1999 to 2015, it has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 E. Mossoux , B. Finociety , J. -M. Beckers , F. H. Vincent

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…

In the centre of our galaxy lies a super-massive black hole, identified with the radio source Sagittarius A*. This black hole has an estimated mass of around 4 million solar masses. Although Sagittarius A* is quite dim in terms of total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-02 Michael Walls , Maria Chernyakova , Regis Terrier , Andrea Goldwurm

In this work, we studied the Galactic Center supermassive black hole (SMBH), Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), with the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA)/East Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) monitoring observations. Especially on 13 May 2019, Sgr A* experienced…

We report the results of multi-epoch observations of Sgr A* with VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA) at 43 GHz, carried out from 2004 to 2008. We detected a time variation of flux at 11 % level and intrinsic size at 19 %. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Kazunori Akiyama , Rohta Takahashi , Mareki Honma , Tomoaki Oyama , Hideyuki Kobayashi

We obtain estimates of Sgr A* accretion flow and black hole parameters by fitting polarized sub-mm observations with spectra computed using three-dimensional (3D) general relativistic (GR) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) (GRMHD) simulations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Roman V. Shcherbakov , Robert F. Penna , Jonathan C. McKinney

Several massive black holes exhibit flux variability on time scales that correspond to source sizes of the order of few Schwarzschild radii. We survey the potential of near-infrared and X-ray polarimetry to constrain physical properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Zamaninasab , A. Eckart , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , R. Schoedel , G. Witzel , N. Sabha , M. Garcia-Marin , D. Kunneriath , K. Muzic , C. Straubmeier , M. Valencia-S , J. A. Zensus

The central region of the Galaxy has been observed at 580, 620 and 1010 MHz with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). We detect emission from Sgr-A*, the compact object at the dynamical centre of the Galaxy, and estimate its flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao

We present the results from a study of the X-ray variability and the near-IR to X-ray spectral energy distribution of four low-luminosity, Seyfert 1 galaxies. We compared their variability amplitude and broad band spectrum with those of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. E. Papadakis , Z. Ioannou , W. Brinkmann , E. M. Xilouris

The compact radio source Sagittarius A (Sgr A) at the centre of our Galaxy harbours a supermassive black hole, whose mass has been measured from stellar orbital motions. Sgr A is therefore the nearest laboratory where super-massive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-24 U. Kostic , A. Cadez , M. Calvani , A. Gomboc

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a strong, compact radio source believed to be powered by a super-massive black hole at the galactic center. Extinction by dust and gas in the galactic plane prevents observing it optically, but its position and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 David Gordon , Aletha de Witt , Christopher S. Jacobs

The Galactic center black hole candidate Sgr A* is the best target for studies of low-luminosity accretion physics, including with near-infrared and submillimeter wavelength long baseline interferometry experiments. Here we compare images…

The accretion flow around the Galactic Center black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is expected to have an electron temperature that is distinct from the ion temperature, due to weak Coulomb coupling in the low-density plasma. We present four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-31 Andrew Chael , Michael E. Rowan , Ramesh Narayan , Michael D. Johnson , Lorenzo Sironi

Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, exhibits episodic near-infrared flares. The recent monitoring of three such events by the GRAVITY instrument has shown that some flares are associated with orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 N. Aimar , A. Dmytriiev , F. H. Vincent , I. El Mellah , T. Paumard , G. Perrin , A. Zech

We report here multi-epoch, multi-frequency observations of the circular polarization in Sagittarius A*, the compact radio source in the Galactic Center. Data taken from the VLA archive indicate that the fractional circular polarization at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke , Robert J. Sault , Donald C. Backer

The image of the emission surrounding the black hole in the center of the Milky Way is predicted to exhibit the imprint of general relativistic (GR) effects, including the existence of a shadow feature and a photon ring of diameter ~50…

The recent detection of a three-hour X-ray flare from Sgr A* by Chandra provides very strong evidence for a compact emitting region near this supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. Sgr A*'s mm/sub-mm spectrum and polarimetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Siming Liu , Fulvio Melia

(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

The supermassive black hole at the Galactic center, Sagittarius A*, has experienced periods of higher activity in the past. The reflection of these past outbursts is observed in the molecular material surrounding the black hole but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-21 Maïca Clavel , R. Terrier , A. Goldwurm , M. R. Morris , G. Ponti , S. Soldi , G. Trap
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