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Hot Spots in Sgr A* Accretion Disk: Hydrodynamic Insights

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2023-01-11 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

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 that the observed hot spots may not be disjoint elements but causally linked components ("petals") of one rotating quasi-stationary macro-structure formed in the thermo-vorticial field within the accretion disk.

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@article{arxiv.2301.03687,
  title  = {Hot Spots in Sgr A* Accretion Disk: Hydrodynamic Insights},
  author = {E. P. Tito and V. P. Goncharov and V. I. Pavlov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03687},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages, 5 figures

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