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We have collected in 2004 adaptive optics corrected L' images of the Galactic Center region with NAOS-CONICA at VLT. A strong variability was observed as well as a correlation between the photocenter positions and fluxes of the L'-band…

The center of our Galaxy hosts a supermassive black hole, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*. Young, massive stars within 0.5 pc of SgrA* are evidence of an episode of intense star formation near the black hole a few Myr ago, which might have left behind…

Sagittarius~A$^*$, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, exhibits flares across various wavelengths, yet their origins remain elusive. We performed 3D two-temperature General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Hong-Xuan Jiang , Yosuke Mizuno , Indu K. Dihingia , Feng Yuan , Xi Lin , Christian M. Fromm , Antonios Nathanail , Ziri Younsi

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…

Sgr A* is thought to be the radiative manifestation of a ~3.6E6 Msun supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. Its mm/sub-mm spectrum and its flare emission at IR and X-ray wavelengths may be produced within the inner ten…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Falanga , F. Melia , M. Prescher , G. Belanger , A. Goldwurm

We report on a NIR, optical and X-ray campaign performed in 2017 with the XMM-Newton and Swift satellites and the VLT/HAWK-I instrument on the transitional MSP PSR J1023+0038. NIR observations were performed in fast-photometric mode in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 M. C. Baglio , F. Vincentelli , S. Campana , F. Coti Zelati , P. D'Avanzo , L. Burderi , P. Casella , A. Papitto , D. M. Russell

Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, exhibits episodic near-infrared flares. The recent monitoring of three such events by the GRAVITY instrument has shown that some flares are associated with orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 N. Aimar , A. Dmytriiev , F. H. Vincent , I. El Mellah , T. Paumard , G. Perrin , A. Zech

We present diffraction limited spectroscopic observations of an infrared flare associated with the radio source SgrA*. These are the first results obtained with OSIRIS, the new facility infrared imaging spectrograph for the Keck Observatory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Krabbe , C. Iserlohe , J. E. Larkin , M. Barczys , M. McElwain , J. Weiss , S. A. Wright , A. Quirrenbach

Sagittarius A$^*$ in the Galactic center harbors a supermassive black hole and exhibits various active phenomena. Besides quiescent emission in radio and submillimeter radiation, flares in the near infrared (NIR) and X-ray bands are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Masaaki Kusunose , Fumio Takahara

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

The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Galaxy flares at least daily in the infrared (IR) and X-ray bands, yet the process driving these flares is still unknown. So far detailed analysis has only been performed on a few bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Salome Dibi , Sera Markoff , Renaud Belmont , Julien Malzac , Joey Neilsen , Gunther Witzel

We present 44 and 226 GHz observations of the Galactic center within 20$"$ of Sgr A*. Millimeter continuum emission at 226 GHz is detected from eight stars that have previously been identified at near-IR and radio wavelengths. We also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 F. Yusef-Zadeh , R. Schödel , M. Wardle , H. Bushouse , W. Cotton , M. J. Royster , D. Kunneriath , D. A. Roberts , E. Gallego-Cano

The interaction between the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, and its accretion disk occasionally produces high-energy flares seen in X-ray, infrared, and radio. One proposed mechanism that produces…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 Aviad Levis , Andrew A. Chael , Katherine L. Bouman , Maciek Wielgus , Pratul P. Srinivasan

Context: On 2022 May 4, an M5.7 flare erupted in the active region NOAA 13004, which was the target of a coordinated campaign between GREGOR, IRIS, Hinode, and ground-based instruments at the Ond\v{r}ejov observatory. A flare kernel located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 M. García-Rivas , J. Kašparová , A. Berlicki , M. Švanda , J. Dudík , D. Čtvrtečka , M. Zapiór , W. Liu , M. Sobotka , M. Pavelková , G. G. Motorina

Flares from the supermassive black hole in our Galaxy, Sagittarius~A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), are routinely observed over the last decade or so. Despite numerous observational and theoretical efforts, the nature of such flares still remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang

(Abridged) We report on RXTE and optical/near-infrared (nIR) observations of the black hole transient GX 339-4, made over a time span of 8 months in 2002 and covering the initial rise and transition from a hard to a soft spectral state. Two…

The black hole at the Galactic Center, Sgr A*, is the prototype of a galactic nucleus at a very low level of activity. Its radio through submm-wave emission is known to come from a region close to the event horizon, however, the source of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Heino Falcke , Sera Markoff , Geoffrey C. Bower

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

The Galactic center supermassive black hole, Sgr A*, has experienced a strong, unprecedented flare in May 2019 when its near-infrared luminosity reached much brighter levels than ever measured. We argue that an explosive event of particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , Rodrigo Nemmen , Fabio Cafardo

The super-massive 4 million solar mass black hole (SMBH) SgrA* shows flare emission from the millimeter to the X-ray domain. The nucleus of the Milky Way has properties (stellar cluster, young stars, molecular gas and an accreting SMBH)…