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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 738, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/738/2/158
关键词
Galaxy: center; Galaxy: nucleus; infrared: general; submillimeter: general
资金
- Canadian Space Agency
- German federal department for education and research (BMBF) [50OS0502, 50OS0801]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion for the government of Spain
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23840044] Funding Source: KAKEN
The innermost tens of parsecs of our Galaxy are characterized by the presence of molecular cloud complexes surrounding Sgr A*, the radiative counterpart of the supermassive black hole (similar to 4 x 10(6)M(circle dot)) at the Galactic center. We seek to distinguish the different physical mechanisms that dominate the molecular clouds at the Galactic center, with special emphasis on the circumnuclear disk (CND). We also want to study the energy flow and model the variable emission of Sgr A*. Our study is based on NIR and submillimeter (sub-mm) observations. Using sub-mm maps, we describe the complex morphology of the molecular clouds and the circumnuclear disk, along with their masses (of order 10(5)-10(6)M(circle dot)), and derive also the temperature and spectral index maps of the regions under study. We conclude that the average temperature of the dust is 14 +/- 4 K. The spectral index map shows that the 20 and 50 km s(-1) clouds are dominated by dust emission. Comparatively, in the CND and its surroundings the spectral indices decrease toward Sgr A* and range between about 1 and -0.6. These values are mostly explained with a combination of dust, synchrotron, and free-free emission in different ratios. The presence of non-thermal emission also accounts for the apparent low temperatures derived in these areas, indicating their unreliability. The Sgr A* light curves show significant flux density excursions in both the NIR and sub-mm domains. We have defined a classification system to account for the NIR variability of Sgr A*. Also, we have modeled on the NIR/sub-mm events. From our modeling results we can infer a sub-mm emission delay with respect to the NIR; we argue that the delay is due to the adiabatic expansion of the synchrotron source components.
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