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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…

Non-blazar Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have emerged as a new gamma-ray emitting source class on the extragalactic sky and started to deepen our understanding of the physical processes and the nature of AGN in general. The detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-10 Frank M. Rieger

Context: Recent near-infrared polarization measurements of SgrA* show that its emission is significantly polarized during flares and consists of a non- or weakly polarized main flare with highly polarized sub-flares. The flare activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Meyer , A. Eckart , R. Schoedel , W. J. Duschl , K. Muzic , M. Dovciak , V. Karas

The super-massive 4 million solar mass black hole Sagittarius~A* (SgrA*) shows flare emission from the millimeter to the X-ray domain. A detailed analysis of the infrared light curves allows us to address the accretion phenomenon in a…

We observed two nearby galaxies with potential or weak indications of nuclear activity, M32 and M81, with the MIRLIN mid-IR camera at N band (10.79 microns). M32 is not detected, but we give detailed measurements of the nucleus of M81. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. Grossan , V. Gorjian , M. Werner , M. Ressler

We have observed the central 45' region of the Galaxy at 620 MHz band of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in radio continuum, and measured the polarisation properties of 64 small diameter background extragalactic sources seen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Subhashis Roy

Context: The supermassive black hole at the Galactic center, SgrA*, shows frequent radiation outbursts, often called 'flares'. In the near-infrared some of these flares were reported as showing intrinsic quasi-periodicities. The flux peaks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Meyer , R. Schoedel , A. Eckart , V. Karas , M. Dovciak , W. J. Duschl

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…

We report the first detection of the Galactic Centre massive black hole, Sgr~A*, in the far infrared. Our measurements were obtained with PACS on board the \emph{Herschel} satellite at $100~\mathrm{\mu m}$ and $160~\mathrm{\mu m}$. While…

Due to the compactness active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are still unresolved with optical observations. However, structure and physical conditions of the matter in their central parts are especially important to study the processes of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-31 Elena Shablovinskaya , Viktor Afanasiev

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

Viscous rotating accretion flows around black holes become advection-dominated when the accretion rate $\dot M$ is sufficiently low. Most of the accretion energy in such flows is stored within the gas and advected radially inward. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi , Rohan Mahadevan

In this paper, we investigate the astrophysical processes of stellar-mass black holes (sMBHs) embedded in advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 J. -M. Wang , J. -R. Liu , Y. -R. Li , Y. -Y. Songsheng , Y. -F. Yuan , L. C. Ho

We analyse the circular polarisation data accumulated in the first 7 years of the POLAMI project introduced in an accompanying paper (Agudo et al.). In the 3mm wavelength band, we acquired more than 2600 observations, and all but one of our…

High-resolution observations with GRAVITY-VLTI instrument have provided abundant information about the flares in Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center, including the time-dependent location of the centroid (a "hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-28 Lin Xi , Yuan Feng

Sgr A* is a source of strongly variable emission in several energy bands. It is generally agreed that this emission comes from the material surrounding the black hole which is either falling in or flowing out. The activity must be driven by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-20 B. Czerny , M. Moscibrodzka , D. Proga , T. Das , A. Siemiginowska

In Torne et al. (2015), we showed detections of SGR J1745-2900 up to 225 GHz (1.33 mm); at that time the highest radio frequency detection of pulsar emission. In this work, we present the results of new observations of the same magnetar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 P. Torne , G. Desvignes , R. P. Eatough , R. Karuppusamy , G. Paubert , M. Kramer , I. Cognard , D. J. Champion , L. G. Spitler

In this paper, we provide a first physical interpretation for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)'s 2017 observations of Sgr A*. Our main approach is to compare resolved EHT data at 230 GHz and unresolved non-EHT observations from radio to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-17 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present a new way of describing the flares from Sgr A* with a self-consistent calculation of the particle distribution. All relevant radiative processes are taken into account in the evolution of the electron distribution and resulting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-15 Salome Dibi , Sera Markoff , Renaud Belmont , Julien Malzac , Nicolas M. Barriere , John A. Tomsick