期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 746, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/746/1/L10
关键词
accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; Galaxy: center; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); methods: numerical; radiative transfer
资金
- NASA under NASA Earth and Space Science [NNX10AL24H]
- National Science Foundation [AST 07-09246]
- NASA [NNX10AD03G]
- NSF through TeraGrid resources
- Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial scholarship
- NASA [135909, NNX10AD03G, 130708, NNX10AL24H] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We report transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) on minute timescales in relativistic, radiative models of the galactic center source Sgr A*. The QPOs result from nonaxisymmetric m = 1 structure in the accretion flow excited by MHD turbulence. Near-infrared (NIR) and X-ray power spectra show significant peaks at frequencies comparable to the orbital frequency at the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) f(o). The excess power is associated with inward propagating magnetic filaments inside the ISCO. The amplitudes of the QPOs are sensitive to the electron distribution function. We argue that transient QPOs appear at a range of frequencies in the neighborhood of f(o) and that the power spectra, averaged over long times, likely show a broad bump near f(o) rather than distinct, narrow QPO features.
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