Detection of Sagittarius A* at 330 MHz With the Very Large Array

Abstract

The central radio-bright region of our Galaxy, known as the Sagittarius Complex, is composed of three major components: the supernova remnant (SNR) Sgr A East, the Sgr A West H II region, and Sgr A*, recently established as our Galaxy's central massive black hole (e.g., Ghez et al. 2000; Eckart et al. 2002). Models attempting to explain the emission from Sgr A* fall into three broad classes. Emission is modeled as arising from thermal sources, such as a low-temperature accretion disk, from nonthermal sources such as a jet (e.g., Melia & Falcke 2001 and references therein), or from a mixture of the two. Such models are constrained primarily by the observed spectrum of Sgr A*, but large gaps in frequency coverage exist. For this reason, filling in such gaps, as with the recent near-IR detections (Ghez et al. 2004; Genzel et al. 2003), and extending the range of frequencies over which the source is observed is important in order to place additional observational constraints on these models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 20, 2004
Accession Number
ADA464418

Entities

People

  • Michael E. Nord
  • N. Duric
  • Namir E. Kassim
  • T. Joseph W. Lazio
  • W. M. Goss

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Astronomy
  • Black Holes
  • Detection
  • Diffraction
  • Emission
  • Flux Density
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Image Processing
  • Line Of Sight
  • Low Temperature
  • Measurement
  • Observatories
  • Radio Astronomy
  • Scattering
  • Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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