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For a decade now, evidence has accumulated that giant molecular clouds located within the central molecular zone of our Galaxy reflect X-rays coming from past outbursts of the supermassive black hole Sgr A*. However, the number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Dimitri Chuard , Régis Terrier , Andrea Goldwurm , Maïca Clavel , Simona Soldi , Mark R. Morris , Gabriele Ponti , Michael Walls , Maria Chernyakova

Proposed scaling relations of a characteristic timescale in the X-ray power spectral density of galactic and supermassive black holes have been used to argue that the accretion process is the same for small and large black holes. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Meyer , T. Do , A. Ghez , M. R. Morris , S. Yelda , R. Schoedel , A. Eckart

Galactic Center (GC) molecular cloud Sgr B2 is the best manifestation of an X-ray reflection nebula (XRN) reprocessing a past giant outburst from the supermassive black hole Sgr A*. Alternatively, Sgr B2 could be illuminated by low-energy…

We review our current understanding to the accretion and ejection processes in Sgr A*. Roughly speaking, they correspond to the quiescent and flare states of the source respectively. The high-resolution {\it Chandra} observations to the gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-17 Feng Yuan

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the variable radio, near-infrared (NIR), and X-ray source associated with accretion onto the Galactic center black hole. We present an analysis of the most comprehensive NIR variability dataset of Sgr A* to date:…

We present the expected variability features in the context of the Synchro- Self-Compton (SSC) model of emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and show that the homogeneous SSC model describes well the observed multi- wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mastichiadis , J. G. Kirk

Sagittarius A* exhibits frequent flaring activity across the electromagnetic spectrum. Signatures of an orbiting hot spot have been identified in the polarized millimeter wavelength light curves observed with ALMA in 2017 immediately after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 A. I. Yfantis , M. A. Mościbrodzka , M. Wielgus , J. T. Vos , A. Jimenez-Rosales

Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, is known to be a variable source of X-ray, near-infrared (NIR), and submillimeter (submm) radiation and therefore a prime candidate to study the…

The electromagnetic counterpart to the Galactic center supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, has been observed in the near-infrared for over 20 years and is known to be highly variable. We report new Keck Telescope observations showing that Sgr…

We examine the low angular momentum flow model for Sgr A* using two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations based on the parameters of the specific angular momentum and total energy estimated in the recent analysis of stellar wind of nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Toru Okuda , Diego Molteni

We study the quasi-simultaneous Spectral Energy Distributions (SED) of 48 LBAS blazars, collected within three months of the Fermi LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS) data taking period, combining Fermi and Swift data with radio NIR-Optical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 S. Raino' , E. Cavazzuti , S. Colafrancesco , P. Giommi , A. Tramacere , the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

We present the first systematic analysis of the X-ray variability of Sgr A* during the Chandra X-ray Observatory's 2012 Sgr A* X-ray Visionary Project (XVP). With 38 High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) observations spaced…

We study the evolution of the spectral index and the normalization (flux) of the non-thermal component of the electron spectra observed by RHESSI during 24 solar hard X-ray flares. The quantitative evolution is confronted with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo C. Grigis , Arnold O. Benz

We study the environment of Sgr A* using spectral and continuum observations with the ALMA and VLA. Our analysis of sub-arcsecond H30alpha, H39alpha, H52alpha and H56alpha line emission towards Sgr A* confirm the recently published broad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Royster , M. Wardle , W. Cotton , D. Kunneriath , I. Heywood , J. Michail

We present a statistical analysis of polarized near-infrared (NIR) light from Sgr A*, the radio source associated with the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The observations have been carried out using the adaptive…

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

This paper presents simulations of the synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) spectrum within the Internal-Collision-induced Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence (ICMART) model. We investigate how key parameters like the magnetization $\sigma_0$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-16 Xueying Shao , He Gao

We study the coherence of the near-infrared and X-ray background fluctuations and the X-ray spectral properties of the sources producing it. We use data from multiple Spitzer and Chandra surveys, including the UDS/SXDF surveys, the Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Yanxia Li , Nico Cappelluti , Günther Hasinger , Richard G. Arendt , Alexander Kashlinsky , Fabio Pacucci

W Comae has significant variability in multi-wavelengthes, from the radio to the gamma-ray bands. A bright outburst in the optical and X-ray bands was observed in 1998, and most recently, a strong TeV flare was detected by VERITAS in 2008.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 Jin Zhang
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