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Measurements of stellar orbits provide compelling evidence that the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the Galactic Centre is a black hole four million times the mass of the Sun. With the exception of modest X-ray and infrared flares,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-20 S. Gillessen , R. Genzel , T. K. Fritz , E. Quataert , C. Alig , A. Burkert , J. Cuadra , F. Eisenhauer , O. Pfuhl , K. Dodds-Eden , C. F. Gammie , T. Ott

The enigmatic radio source Sagittarius A* at the centre of our Galaxy appears to be a low-luminosity version of active galactic nuclei in other galaxies. By analogy with active galactic nuclei models, it has been proposed that Sgr A* may be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ramesh Narayan , Insu Yi , Rohan Mahadevan

The interplay between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their environments is believed to command an essential role in galaxy evolution. The majority of these SMBHs are in the radiative inefficient accretion phase where this interplay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-30 Shawn R. Roberts , Yan-Fei Jiang , Q. Daniel Wang , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

A supermassive black hole SgrA* with the mass ~4x10^6 Msun resides at the centre of our galaxy. Building up such a massive black hole within the ~10^10 year lifetime of our galaxy would require a mean accretion rate of ~4x10^-4 Msun/yr. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-21 Elena M. Murchikova , E. Sterl Phinney , Anna Pancoast , Roger D. Blandford

In the first paper of this series, using analytic tools, we examined how the evolution and structure of a massive accretion disk may be influenced by the deposition of mass and angular momentum by an infalling Bondi-Hoyle wind. Such a mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert F. Coker , Fulvio Melia , Heino Falcke

The material accreting onto Sgr A* most probably comes from the nearby stars. We analyze the pattern of this flow at distances of a fraction of a parsec and we argue that the net angular momentum of this material is low but non-negligible,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Monika Moscibrodzka , Tapas K. Das , Bozena Czerny

The evolution of an accretion disk can be influenced significantly by the deposition of mass and angular momentum by an infalling Bondi-Hoyle wind. Such a mass influx impacts the long-term behavior of the disk by providing additional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Heino Falcke , Fulvio Melia

The observed rotation measures (RMs) towards the galactic centre magnetar and towards Sagittarius A* provide a strong constraint on MHD models of the galactic centre accretion flow, probing distances from the black hole separated by many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-26 Sean M. Ressler , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

We present 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of the accretion flow surrounding Sagittarius A* that are initialized using larger-scale MHD simulations of the $\sim$ 30 Wolf--Rayet (WR) stellar winds in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Sean M. Ressler , Christopher J. White , Eliot Quataert , James M. Stone

The recent image of our galaxy's supermassive black hole Sgr A* derived from the 7 April 2017 data of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration shows multiple hot spots in its accretion disk. Using the analytical framework, we demonstrate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 E. P. Tito , V. P. Goncharov , V. I. Pavlov

The accretion process in a typical S-type symbiotic star, targeting~AG Draconis, is investigated through 3D hydrodynamical simulations using the FLASH code. Regardless of the wind velocity of the giant star, an accretion disk surrounding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Young-Min Lee , Hyosun Kim , Hee-Won Lee

Hydrodynamic simulations of the stellar winds from Wolf-Rayet stars within the Galactic Center can provide predictions for the X-ray spectrum of supermassive black hole Sgr A*. Herein, we present results from updated smooth particle…

The massive black hole in our galactic center, Sgr A*, accretes only a small fraction of the gas available at its Bondi radius. The physical processes determining this accretion rate remain unknown, partly due to a lack of observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Michael McCourt , Ann-Marie Madigan

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

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

Supergiant X-ray Binaries (SgXB) host a compact object, often a neutron star (NS), orbiting an evolved O/B star. Mass transfer proceeds through the intense line-driven wind of the stellar donor, a fraction of which is captured by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 I. El Mellah , J. O. Sundqvist , R. Keppens

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

Latest observational data provides evidence that the emissions from Sgr A* originate from an accretion disc within ten gravitational radii of the dynamical centre of Milky Way. We investigate the physical processes responsible for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-08 E. M. Howard

Previous works show strong winds exist in hot accretion flows around black holes. Those works focus only on the region close to the black hole thus it is unknown whether or where the wind production stops at large radii. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Xiao-hong Yang

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is used to estimate accretion rates of mass, linear and angular momentum in a binary system where one component undergoes mass loss through a wind. Physical parameters are chosen such as to model the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tom Theuns , Henri Boffin , Alain Jorissen