Borkar, A., Eckart, A., Straubmeier, C., Kunneriath, D., Jalali, B., Sabha, N., Shahzamanian, B., Garcia-Marin, M., Valencia-S, M., Sjouwerman, L., Britzen, S., Karas, V., Dovciak, M., Donea, A. and Zensus, A. (2016). Monitoring the Galactic Centre with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 458 (3). S. 2336 - 2350. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1365-2966

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Abstract

The supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), at the centre of the Milky Way undergoes regular flaring activity, which is thought to arise from the innermost region of the accretion flow. Between 2010 and 2014, we performed monitoring observations of the Galactic Centre to study the flux-density variations at 3 mm using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). We obtain light curves of Sgr A* by subtracting the contributions from the extended emission around it, and the elevation and time-dependent gains of the telescope. We perform structure function analysis and the Bayesian blocks representation to detect flare events. The observations detect six instances of significant variability in the flux density of Sgr A* in three observations, with variations between 0.5 and 1.0 Jy, which last for 1.5-3 h. We use the adiabatically expanding plasmon model to explain the short time-scale variations in the flux density. We derive the physical quantities of the modelled flare emission, such as the source expansion speed v(exp), source sizes, spectral indices and the turnover frequency. These parameters imply that the expanding source components are either confined to the immediate vicinity of Sgr A* by contributing to the corona or the disc, or have a bulk motion greater than v(exp). No exceptional flux-density variation on short flare time-scales was observed during the approach and the flyby of the dusty S-cluster object (DSO/G2). This is consistent with its compactness and the absence of a large bow shock.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Borkar, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Eckart, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Straubmeier, C.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Kunneriath, D.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Jalali, B.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Sabha, N.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Shahzamanian, B.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Garcia-Marin, M.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Valencia-S, M.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Sjouwerman, L.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Britzen, S.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Karas, V.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Dovciak, M.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Donea, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Zensus, A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-275246
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw362
Journal or Publication Title: Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc.
Volume: 458
Number: 3
Page Range: S. 2336 - 2350
Date: 2016
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication: OXFORD
ISSN: 1365-2966
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
SAGITTARIUS-A-ASTERISK; ADVECTION-DOMINATED ACCRETION; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLE; NEAR-INFRARED FLARES; CENTER SOURCE G2; JET-ADAF MODEL; X-RAY FLARES; PROPER MOTIONS; RADIO-EMISSION; STELLAR ORBITSMultiple languages
Astronomy & AstrophysicsMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/27524

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