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Modelling the black hole silhouette in Sagittarius A* with ion tori

ABRAMOWICZ, Marek and Odele STRAUB

Basic information

Original name

Modelling the black hole silhouette in Sagittarius A* with ion tori

Authors

ABRAMOWICZ, Marek and Odele STRAUB

Edition

Astronomy & Astrophysics, FR - Francouzská republika, 2012, 0004-6361

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201219209

UT WoS

000306597200083

Keywords in English

Black hole physics; Accretion; Accretion disks; Galaxy: center

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 15/4/2021 10:03, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

V originále

We calculate the "observed at infinity" image and spectrum of the accretion structure in Sgr A*, by modelling it as an optically thin, constant angular momentum ion torus in hydrodynamic equilibrium. The physics we consider includes a two-temperature plasma, a toroidal magnetic field, as well as radiative cooling by bremsstrahlung, synchrotron, and inverse Compton processes. Our relativistic model has the virtue of being fully analytic and very simple, depending only on eight tunable parameters: the black hole spin and the inclination of the spin axis to our line of sight, the torus angular momentum, the polytropic index, the magnetic to total pressure ratio, the central values of density and electron temperature, and the ratio of electron to ion temperatures. The observed image and spectrum are calculated numerically using the ray-tracing code GYOTO. Our results demonstrate that the ion torus model is able to account for the main features of the accretion structure surrounding Sgr A*.
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