2024MNRAS.531.3136L


Query : 2024MNRAS.531.3136L

2024MNRAS.531.3136L - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 531, 3136-3150 (2024/July-1)

Revisiting flares in Sagittarius A* based on general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations of black hole accretion.

LIN X. and YUAN F.

Abstract (from CDS):

High-resolution observations with GRAVITY-Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) instrument have provided abundant information about the flares in Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in our Galactic centre, including the time-dependent location of the centroid (a 'hotspot'), the light curve, and polarization. Yuan et al. () proposed a 'coronal mass ejection' model to explain the flares and their association with the plasma ejection. The key idea is that magnetic reconnection in the accretion flow produces the flares and results in the formation and ejection of flux ropes. The dynamical process proposed in the model has been confirmed by three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations in a later work. Based on this scenario, in our previous works the radiation of the flux rope has been calculated analytically and compared to the observations. In the present paper, we develop the model by directly using numerical simulation data to interpret observations. We first identify flux ropes formed due to reconnection from the data. By assuming that electrons are accelerated in the reconnection current sheet and flow into the flux rope and emit their radiation there, we have calculated the time-dependent energy distribution of electrons after phenomenologically considering their injection due to reconnection acceleration, radiative and adiabatic cooling. The radiation of these electrons is calculated using the ray-tracing approach. The trajectory of the hotspot, the radiation light curve during the flare, and the polarization are calculated. These results are compared with the GRAVITY observations and good consistencies are found.

Abstract Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): acceleration of particles - black hole physics - magnetic reconnection - MHD - radiative transfer

Simbad objects: 7

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Number of rows : 7
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 MCG+01-12-009 Bla 04 33 11.0956735296 +05 21 15.619461552   15.72 15.05 10.08   ~ 2099 2
2 M 81 Sy2 09 55 33.1726556496 +69 03 55.062505368   7.89 6.94     ~ 4725 3
3 M 87 AGN 12 30 49.42338414 +12 23 28.0436859 10.16 9.59 8.63   7.49 ~ 7815 3
4 QSO J1512-0906 Bla 15 12 50.53293048 -09 05 59.8297908   16.74 16.54     ~ 1409 1
5 NAME Galactic Center reg 17 45 39.60213 -29 00 22.0000           ~ 16269 0
6 NAME Sgr A* X 17 45 40.03599 -29 00 28.1699           ~ 4970 3
7 Granat 1915+105 HXB 19 15 11.55576 +10 56 44.9052           ~ 2810 0

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