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Effect of Electromagnetic Interaction on Galactic Center Flare Components

TURSUNOV, Arman, Michal ZAJACEK, Andreas ECKART, Martin KOLOŠ, Silke BRITZEN et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Effect of Electromagnetic Interaction on Galactic Center Flare Components

Authors

TURSUNOV, Arman (860 Uzbekistan, belonging to the institution), Michal ZAJACEK, Andreas ECKART, Martin KOLOŠ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Silke BRITZEN, Zdeněk STUCHLÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Bozena CZERNY and Vladimír KARAS (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Astrophysical Journal, 2020, 0004-637X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19630/20:A0000019

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab980e

UT WoS

000549312000001

Keywords in English

black hole physics; Galactic center; Galaxy accretion disks; Magnetic fields; Milky Way magnetic fields; Accretion

Tags

EF16_027-0008521, , FÚ2020, GA19-03950S, RIV21

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

Links

EF16_027/0008521, research and development project. GA19-03950S, research and development project.
Změněno: 31/3/2022 09:47, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

V originále

Recently, near-infrared GRAVITY@ESO observations at 2.2 mu m announced the detection of three bright "flares" in the vicinity of the Galactic center supermassive black hole (SMBH) that exhibited orbital motion at a distance of about 6-11 gravitational radii from an similar to 4 x 10(6)Mblack hole. There are indications of the presence of a large-scale, organized component of the magnetic field at the Galactic center. Electromagnetic effects on the flare dynamics were previously not taken into account despite the relativistic motion of a plasma in magnetic field leading to the charge separation and nonnegligible net charge density in the plasma. Applying various approaches, we find the net charge number density of the flare components of the order of 10(-3)-10(-4)cm(-3), while the particles' total number density is of the order of 10(6)-10(8)cm(-3). However, even such a tiny excess of charged particles in the quasi-neutral plasma can significantly affect the dynamics of flare components, which can then lead to the degeneracy in the measurements of spin of the SMBH. Analyzing the dynamics of recent flares in the case of the rapidly rotating black hole, we also constrain the inclination angle between the magnetic field and spin axis to alpha < 50 degrees, as for larger angles, the motion of the hot spot is strongly chaotic.
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