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We investigate accretion disc models for the X-ray emission of Seyfert-1 galaxies and the hard state of black-hole X-ray binaries. We concentrate on two hot accretion disc models: advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) and recently found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Feng Yuan , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

All high temperature accretion solutions including ADAF are physically thick, so outgoing radiation interacts with the incoming flow, sharing as much or more resemblance with classical spherical accretion flows as with disk flows. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Myeong-Gu Park , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Sgr A* is an ideal target to study low-luminosity accreting systems. It has been recently proposed that properties of the accretion flow around Sgr A* can be probed through its interactions with the stellar wind of nearby massive stars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 I. M. Christie , M. Petropoulou , P. Mimica , D. Giannios

The gas cloud G2 falling toward Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is supposed to provide valuable information on the physics of accretion flows and the environment of the black hole. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-22 J. -H. Park , S. Trippe , T. P. Krichbaum , J. -Y. Kim , M. Kino , A. Bertarini , M. Bremer , P. de Vicente

We present a simple physical model of the central source emission in the M87 galaxy. It is well known that the observed X-ray luminosity from this galactic nucleus is much lower than the predicted one, if a standard radiative efficiency is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Vitanza , V. Teresi , D. Molteni , G. Gerardi

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

In this Letter we investigate the properties of advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) fed by the evaporation of a Shakura-Sunyaev accretion disk (SSD). In our picture the ADAF fills the central cavity evacuated by the SSD and extends…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Turolla , C. P. Dullemond

We propose a model of the accretion flow onto a black hole consisting of the accretion disk with an accreting two-temperature corona. The model is based on assumptions about the radiative and conductive energy exchange between the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Czerny , A. Rozanska , A. Janiuk , P. T. Zycki

At luminosities below a few percent of Eddington, accreting black holes switch to a hard spectral state which is very different from the soft blackbody-like spectral state that is found at higher luminosities. The hard state is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ramesh Narayan

We revisit theoretical and observational constraints on geometrically-thin disk accretion in Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). We show that the combined effects of mass outflows and electron energization in the hot part of the accretion flow can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erin J. D. Jolley , Zdenka Kuncic

The correlation between radio and X-ray luminosity in the hard state of black hole X-ray binaries is important for unveiling the relation between the accretion flow and the jets. In this paper, we have modeled the quasi-simultaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Renyi Ma

The nature of the emission region around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, remains under debate. A prediction of jet models is that a frequency-dependent shift in the position of the radio core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 R. Fraga-Encinas , M. Moscibrodzka , H. Falcke

We investigate radiatively inefficient accretion flow models for Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic Center, in light of new observational constraints. Confirmation of linear polarization in the submm emission argues for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Feng Yuan , Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan

The preliminary detection of the Galactic Center black hole Sgr A* in X-rays by the Chandra mission, as well as recent mm-VLBI measurements, impose strict constraints on this source. Using a relativistic jet model for Sgr A*, we calculate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Heino Falcke , Sera Markoff

We propose a 2-temperature radial dynamical model of plasma flow near Sgr A* and fit the bremsstrahlung emission to extensive quiescent X-Ray Chandra data. The model extends from several arcseconds to black hole (BH) gravitational radius,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-18 Roman V. Shcherbakov , Frederick K. Baganoff

Recently, unprecedentedly accurate data on the orbital motion of stars in the vicinity of the Sagittarius $ {\rm A^*}$ have been available. Such information can be used not only to constrain the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Heon-Young Chang , Chul-Sung Choi

We present simultaneous, sub-arcsecond (<=50pc) resolution 5 GHz, 8.4 GHz, and 15 GHz VLA observations of a well-defined sample of sixteen low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs). The radio emission in most of these nuclei does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Neil M. Nagar , Andrew S. Wilson , Heino Falcke

The boundary layers of weakly-magnetized white dwarfs (WDs) accreting at rates <=10^16 g/s are radially extended, hot, optically-thin, and they advect some of their internally-dissipated energy (Narayan & Popham 1993). Motivated by this, I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristen Menou

By solving radiative transfer equations, we examine three-dimensional radiative properties of a magnetohydrodynamic accretion flow model confronting with the observed spectrum of Sgr A*, in the vicinity of supermassive black hole at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Y. Kato , M. Umemura , K. Ohsuga

Recent studies of the cosmic X-ray background (XRB) have suggested the possible existence of a population of relatively faint sources with hard X-ray spectra; however, the emission mechanism remains unclear. If the hard X-ray emission is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Insu Yi , Stephen P. Boughn