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Despite significant strides made towards understanding accretion, outflow, and emission processes in the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, the presence of jets has neither been rejected nor proven. We investigate here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sera Markoff , Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke

We report measurements with the VLBA of the position of Sgr A* with respect to two extragalactic radio sources over a period of eight years. The apparent proper motion of \sgrab relative to J1745-283 is 6.379 +/- 0.024 mas/y along a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. J. Reid , A. Brunthaler

In this paper the jet model for the supermassive black hole candidate Sgr A* in the Center of the Galaxy is reviewed. The most recent model, with a reduced set of parameters, is able to account for all major radio properties of the source:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke

Observations of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) are affected by interstellar scattering along our line of sight. At long radio observing wavelengths…

Near-infrared observations of stellar orbits at the Galactic Center provide conclusive evidence for a massive black hole associated with the compact radio source Sgr A*. The astrometric reference frame for these observations is tied to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-08 P. M. Plewa , S. Gillessen , F. Eisenhauer , T. Ott , O. Pfuhl , E. George , J. Dexter , M. Habibi , R. Genzel , M. J. Reid , K. M. Menten

Recent observations of the radio and NIR source Sgr A* reinforce the interpretation of the Galactic Center as a scaled down version of an AGN. The discovery of an elongated structure at 43 GHz and increasing evidence for the presence of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Heino Falcke , Karl Mannheim , Peter L. Biermann

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

We observed Sgr A* and two extragalactic radio sources nearby in angle with the VLBA over a period of two years and measured relative positions with an accuracy approaching 0.1 mas. The apparent proper motion of Sgr A* relative to J1745-283…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. Reid , A. C. S. Readhead , R. C. Vermeulen , R. N. Treuhaft

We report on 85-101 GHz light curves of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), observed in April 2017 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This study of high-cadence full-Stokes data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Maciek Wielgus , Sara Issaoun , Ivan Marti-Vidal , Razieh Emami , Monika Moscibrodzka , Christiaan D. Brinkerink , Ciriaco Goddi , Ed Fomalont

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 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

Sgr A* exhibits flares in radio, millimeter and submm wavelengths with durations of $\sim 1$ hour. Using structure function, power spectrum and autocorrelation function analysis, we investigate the variability of Sgr A* on time scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle , J. Miller-Jones , D. Roberts , N. Grosso , D. Porquet

PAPER WITHDRAWN. The recent detection of Sgr A* in the X-ray band, together with the radio polarization measurements conducted over the past few years, offer the best constraints yet for understanding the nature of the emitting gas within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fulvio Melia , Siming Liu , Marco Fatuzzo

Sub milli-arcsecond astrometry and imaging of the black hole Sgr A* at the Galactic centre may become possible in the near future at infrared and sub-millimetre wavelengths. Motivated by observations of short-term infrared and X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick , Abraham Loeb

The recent detection of polarized radiation from Sgr A* requires a non-thermal electron distribution for the emitting plasma. The Faraday rotation measure must be small, placing strong limits on the density and magnetic field strength. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric Agol

We propose a two-temperature radial inflow-outflow model near Sgr A* with self-consistent feeding and conduction. Stellar winds from individual stars are considered to find the rates of mass injection and energy injection. These source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Roman V. Shcherbakov , Frederick K. Baganoff

We present 8.4 GHz VLA A-configuration observations of 87 sources from the mid-infrared-selected AGN sample of Rush et al (1993). These 0.25 arcsec resolution observations allow elongated radio structures tens of parsecs in size to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andy Thean , Alan Pedlar , Marek J. Kukula , Stefi A. Baum , Christopher P. O'Dea

We present hand-curated size measurements for a sample of 2,002 multiple-component radio AGNs in the Radio sources associated with Optical Galaxies and having Unresolved or Extended morphologies I (ROGUE I) catalog. The sources span total…

We present a robust calibration of the 1.4GHz radio continuum star formation rate (SFR) using a combination of the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey and the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) survey. We identify…

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