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A large radio outburst from Sgr A* was observed during the VLA weekly monitoring program at 2 cm, 1.3 cm and 7 mm, nearly coincident with the brightest X-ray flare detected to date with the XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory on 2002-10-03. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun-Hui Zhao , R. M. Herrnstein , G. C. Bower , W. M. Goss , S. M. Liu

We present the results of radio monitoring observations of Sgr A* at 7 mm (i.e. 43 GHz) with VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA), which is a VLBI array in Japan. VERA provides angular resolutions on millisecond scales, resolving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Kazunori Akiyama , Motoki Kino , Bong Won Sohn , Sang Sung Lee , Sascha Trippe , Mareki Honma

Recent infrared (IR) observations of the center of our Galaxy indicate that the supermassive black hole source Sgr A* is strongly variable in the IR. The timescale for the variability, $\sim 30$ min, is comparable to that of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Feng Yuan , Eliot Quataert , Ramesh Narayan

Over a two year period (1995-1997), we have conducted a diffraction-limited imaging study at 2.2 microns of the inner 6"x6" of the Galaxy's central stellar cluster using the Keck 10-m telescope. The K band images obtained reveal a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Ghez , B. L. Klein , M. Morris , E. E. Becklin

We present a deep, low-frequency radio continuum study of the nearby Fanaroff--Riley class I (FR I) radio galaxy 3C 31 using a combination of LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR; 30--85 and 115--178 MHz), Very Large Array (VLA; 290--420 MHz),…

Giant Radio Galaxies (GRG) are the largest single entities in the Universe, having a projected linear size exceeding 0.7 Mpc, which implies that they are also quite old objects. They are not common, representing a fraction of only about 6%…

There are several lines of evidence that the super-massive black hole at the Galactic center had higher activities in the past than directly observed at present. Here I show that these lines of evidence can quantitatively and consistently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tomonori Totani

The absolute position of Sgr A*, the compact radio source at the center of the Milky Way, had been uncertain by several tens of milliarcseconds. Here we report improved astrometric measurements of the absolute position and proper motion of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Shuangjing Xu , Bo Zhang , Mark J. Reid , Xingwu Zheng , Guangli Wang , Taehyun Jung

Using a sample of 2922 z<0.2, spectroscopically-identified Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) we explore the relationship between radio size and the prevalence of extreme ionised outflows, as traced using broad [O III] emission-line profiles in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 S. J. Molyneux , C. M. Harrison , M. E. Jarvis

The compact radio source Sagittarius A (Sgr A) at the centre of our Galaxy harbours a supermassive black hole, whose mass has been measured from stellar orbital motions. Sgr A is therefore the nearest laboratory where super-massive black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-24 U. Kostic , A. Cadez , M. Calvani , A. Gomboc

Spectral and kinematic studies suggest that the nonthermal radio source Sgr A*, located at the center of the Milky Way, is a supermassive compact object with a mass 2-3 million solar masses. Winds from nearby stars, located approximately…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert F. Coker , F. Melia

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

We have studied the nuclear emission detected in high-resolution radio and optical data of carefully selected samples of low luminosity AGN (LLAGN) in the local universe. When the Eddington ratio is plotted against the nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Chiaberge

At the center of the Milky Way, with a distance of ~8 kpc, the compact source Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) can be associated with a super massive black hole of ~4x10^6 solar masses. SgrA* shows strong variability from the radio to the X-ray…

The radio luminosity function (RLF) of radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars is often modelled as a broken power-law. The break luminosity is close to the dividing line between the two Fanaroff-Riley (FR) morphological classes for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christian R. Kaiser , Philip N. Best

It is well-known that star-forming galaxies (SFGs) exhibit a tight correlation between their radio and infrared emissions, commonly referred to as the infrared-radio correlation (IRRC). Recent empirical studies have reported a dependence of…

Studies of the inner few parsecs at the Galactic Centre provide evidence of a supermassive black hole, associated with the unusual, variable radio and infrared source Sgr A*. Our major aim is the study and analysis of the physical processes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-03 E. M. Howard

The time-variable emission from the accretion flow of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, has long been examined in the radio-to-mm, near-infrared (NIR), and X-ray regimes of the electromagnetic spectrum. However,…

In order to find more examples of the elusive high-redshift molecular absorbers, we have embarked on a systematic discovery program for highly obscured, radio-loud "invisible AGN" using the VLA Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Yan , J. T. Stocke , J. Darling , F. Hearty

We report first results from a multiwavelength campaign to measure the simultaneous spectrum of Sgr A* from cm to mm wavelengths. The observations confirm that the previously detected submm-excess is not due to variability; the presence of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke , W. M. Goss , L. C. Ho , H. Matsuo , P. Teuben , A. S. Wilson , J. -H. Zhao , R. Zylka