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We present radio images within 30$''$ of Sgr A* based on recent VLA observations at 34 GHz with 7.8 microJy sensitivity and resolution $\sim88\times46$ milliarcseconds (mas). We report 44 partially resolved compact sources clustered in two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 F. Yusef-Zadeh , D. A. Roberts , M. Wardle , W. Cotton , R. Schödel , M. J. Royster

Measurements of stellar velocities and variable X-ray emission near the centre of the Milky Way have provided the strongest evidence so far that the dark mass concentrations seen in many galactic nuclei are likely supermassive black holes,…

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

We present a catalog of sources detected by the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope onboard the SRG space observatory during the observations of the Galactic plane region near a longitude $l\simeq20$ deg (L20 field) in October 2019. The L20…

The recent detection of significant linear polarization at mm and sub-mm wavelengths in the spectrum of Sgr A* (if confirmed) will be a useful probe of the conditions within several Schwarzschild radii ($r_S$) of the event horizon at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fulvio Melia , Siming Liu , Robert Coker

We present moderate resolution (~6 km/s) spectroscopy of 284 M giant candidates selected from the Two Micron All Sky Survey photometry. Radial velocities (RVs) are presented for stars mainly in the south, with a number having positions…

The ongoing monitoring of the Galactic center and Sgr A*, the central supermassive black hole, produces surprising and unexpected findings. This goes hand in hand with the technical evolution of ground- and space-based telescopes and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Florian Peißker , Andreas Eckart , Michal Zajaček , Silke Britzen

We present in this paper accurate positions of 857 sources derived from the astrometric analysis of 16 eleven-hour experiments from the Very Long Baseline Array imaging and polarimetry survey at 5 GHz (VIPS). Among observed sources,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 Leonid Petrov , Gregory Taylor

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 present the results of a $\lambda$20 cm VLA observation of the compact Galactic center radio source Sgr A$^*$. The scatter-broadened image is elongated in the East-West direction, with an axial ratio of 0.6$\pm$0.05 and a position angle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Yusef-Zadeh W. Cotton M. Wardle F. Melia , D. Roberts

We present radio and mm continuum observations of the Galactic center taken with the VLA and ALMA at 44 and 226 GHz, respectively. We detect radio and mm emission from IRS 3, lying ~4.5" NW of Sgr A*, with a spectrum that is consistent with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle , W. Cotton , R. Schödel , M. J. Royster , D. A. Roberts , D. Kunneriath

The detection of a mm/Sub-mm ``bump'' in Sgr A*'s radio spectrum suggests that at least a portion of its overall emission is produced within a compact accretion torus. This inference is strengthened by observations of strong linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Siming Liu , Fulvio Melia

The linearly polarized millimeter and sub-millimeter emission in Sagittarius A* is produced within 10 Schwarzschild radii of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center and may originate from a hot magnetized accretion disk, where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Siming Liu , Lei Qian , Xue-Bing Wu , Christopher L. Fryer , Hui Li

We report the detection of radio QPOs with structure changes using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 43 GHz. We found conspicuous patterned changes of the structure with P = 16.8 +- 1.4, 22.2 +- 1.4, 31.2 +- 1.5, 56.4 +- 6 min, very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-11 M. Miyoshi , Zhi-Qiang Shen , T. Oyama , R. Takahashi , Y. Kato

Recent measurements, of the velocities of stars near the center of the Milky Way have provided the strongest evidence for the presence of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy, but the observational uncertainties poorly constrain many of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Ghez , M. Morris , E. E. Becklin , T. Kremenek , A. Tanner

We have obtained deep photometric data in 24 fields along the southeast extension of the major axis of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal (Sgr dSph) galaxy, and in four fields along the northwest extension. Using star counts at the expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mario Mateo , Edward W. Olszewski , Heather L. Morrison

Our aim is to characterize the polarized continuum emission properties including intensity, polarization position angle, and polarization percentage of Sgr A* at $\sim$100 (3.0 mm), $\sim$230 (1.3 mm), $\sim$345 (0.87 mm), $\sim$500 (0.6…

We demonstrate that there is only one physical process required to explain the spectrum and the variability of the radio source at the dynamical center of our Galaxy, Sgr A*, in the frequency range from $\approx$1 to $\approx$1000 GHz,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang J. Duschl , Harald Lesch

We present first results for Faraday rotation of compact polarized sources (1 to 2 GHz continuum) in The HI/OH/Recombination line (THOR) survey of the inner Galaxy. In the Galactic longitude range 39 degr < l < 52 degr, we find rotation…

We report 235 GHz linear and circular polarization (LP and CP) detections of Sgr A* at levels of $\sim10\%$ and $\sim-1\%$, respectively, using ALMA. We describe the first full-Stokes modeling of an observed submillimeter flare with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Joseph M. Michail , Farhad Yusef-Zadeh , Mark Wardle , Devaky Kunneriath
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