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In recent years, near-IR and X-ray flares have been detected from the Galaxy's central radio point source, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), believed to be a \~3.10^6 solar masses supermassive black hole. In some cases, the transient emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michel Tagger , Fulvio Melia

Although it is widely accepted that most galaxies have supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers^{1-3}, concrete proof has proved elusive. Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)^4, an extremely compact radio source at the center of our Galaxy, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhi-Qiang Shen , K. Y. Lo , M. -C. Liang , Paul T. P. Ho , J. -H. Zhao

The Galactic Center is the closest galactic nucleus that allows us to determine the multi-frequency behavior of the supermassive black hole counterpart Sagittarius A* in great detail. We put SgrA*, as a nucleus with weak activity, into the…

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy, provides unique opportunities to study black hole accretion, jet formation, and gravitational physics. The rapid structural changes in Sgr A*'s emission pose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Jakob Knollmüller , Philipp Arras , Torsten Enßlin

(abridged) The massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, SagittariusA* is, in relative terms, the weakest accreting black hole accessible to observations. At the moment, the mean SED of SgrA* is only known reliably in the radio to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Schoedel , M. R. Morris , K. Muzic , A. Alberdi , L. Meyer , A. Eckart , D. Y. Gezari

Proper motions and radial velocities of luminous infrared stars in the galactic center have provided strong evidence for a dark mass of 2.5 million solar masses in the central 0.05 pc of the galaxy. The leading hypothesis for this mass is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. C. Backer , R. A. Sramek

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…

The cores of most galaxies are thought to harbour supermassive black holes, which power galactic nuclei by converting the gravitational energy of accreting matter into radiation (ref 1). Sagittarius A*, the compact source of radio, infrared…

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a compact radio source at the Galactic center. Observations have confirmed that its mass is approximately (4.1)*10$^{6}$ M$_{\odot}$, and Sgr A* is generally believed to be powered by gas accretion onto a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Shenyue Yin , Siming Liu

Sgr A* at the Galactic Center is a puzzling source. It has a mass M=(2.5+/-0.4) x 10^6 solar masses which makes it an excellent black hole candidate. Observations of stellar winds and other gas flows in its vicinity suggest a mass accretion…

We report on 85-101 GHz light curves of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), observed in April 2017 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This study of high-cadence full-Stokes data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Maciek Wielgus , Sara Issaoun , Ivan Marti-Vidal , Razieh Emami , Monika Moscibrodzka , Christiaan D. Brinkerink , Ciriaco Goddi , Ed Fomalont

We have performed the monitoring observations of flux density of Sagittarius A* at short millimeter wavelengths (100 and 140 GHz bands) on seven years in the period from 1996 to 2003 using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA). We found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Atsushi Miyazaki , Takahiro Tsutsumi , Masato Tsuboi

Recent near-IR (NIR) and X-ray observations of Sagittarius A*'s spectrum have yielded several strong constraints on the transient energization mechanism, justifying a re-examination of the stochastic acceleration model proposed previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Siming Liu , Fulvio Melia , Vahe Petrosian

(abridged) We describe highlights of the results of two observing campaigns in 2004 to investigate the correlation of flare activity in Sgr A* in different wavelength regimes, using a total of nine ground and space-based telescopes. We…

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the supermassive black hole residing at the center of the Milky Way. It has been the main target of an extensive multiwavelength campaign we carried out in April 2007. Herein, we report the detection of a bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 G. Trap , A. Goldwurm , R. Terrier , K. Dodds-Eden , S. Gillessen , R. Genzel , E. Pantin , P. O. Lagage , P. Ferrando , G. Belanger , D. Porquet , N. Grosso , F. Yusef-Zadeh , F. Melia

We present the longest, by a factor of two, near-infrared lightcurve from Sgr A* - the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center. Achieved by combining Keck and VLT data from one common night, which fortuitously had simultaneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Meyer , T. Do , A. Ghez , M. R. Morris , G. Witzel , A. Eckart , G. Belanger , R. Schoedel

Multiwavelength monitoring observations of Sagittarius A* exhibit variability on timescales of minutes to hours, indicating emission regions localized near the event horizon. (Sub)Millimeter-wavelength VLBI is uniquely suited to probe the…

The Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is one of the most promising targets to study the dynamics of black hole accretion and outflow via direct imaging with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). At 3.5 mm…

X-ray flares have routinely been observed from the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), at our Galactic center. The nature of these flares remains largely unclear, despite of many theoretical models. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Qiang Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang , P. F. Chen , Joseph Neilsen , Taotao Fang , Shuo Zhang , Jason Dexter

Using the Submillimeter Array, we have made the first high angular resolution measurements of the linear polarization of Sagittarius A* at submillimeter wavelengths, and the first detection of intra-day variability in its linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. P. Marrone , J. M. Moran , J. -H. Zhao , R. Rao
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