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Multiwavelength Monitoring of the Supermassive Black Hole in the
Galactic Center
F.K. Baganoff1
M.W. Bautz1, G.R. Ricker1, W.N. Brandt2, G. Chartas2,E.D. Feigelson2, G.P. Garmire2, M. Morris3, E.E. Becklin3, A.M. Ghez3, S.D. Hornstein3, A.M. Tanner3, A.S. Cotera4, P.M. Hinz4, W.F. Hoffmann4, M.R. Meyer4, A. Eckart5, R. Genzel6, J.-H. Zhao7,R.M. Herrnstein7, J.L. Hora7, J.-P. Macquart8, Y. Maeda9, R.J. Sault10,G.B. Taylor11, F. Walter11
1MIT, 2UCLA, 3Penn State, 4Steward Obs., 5U. Cologne, 6MPE, 7CfA,8U. Groningen, 9ISAS, 10ATNF, 11NRAO
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Research Issues
• Supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center: Sagittarius A*! Accretion physics! Emission mechanism of rapid X-ray/IR flares! Evidence for a bipolar outflow! Evidence for a possible X-ray jet
• High-mass star formation history in the Nuclear Bulge
• Supernova Remnants• Colliding stellar winds and other interactions• Origin of new X-ray structures in the field
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X-ray View of the Galactic CenterWang, Gotthelf, and Lang (2002)
2 x 0.8 degrees
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Zooming into the Galactic Center in X-rays
Animation Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO
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Chandra Galactic Center Deep Field
Red 2−3.7 keVGreen 3.7−4.5 keVBlue 4.5−8 keV
17 x 17 arcmin
590 ks
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Red 2−3.7 keVGreen 3.7−4.5 keVBlue 4.5−8 keV
17 x 17 arcmin
Chandra Galactic Center Deep Field
590 ks
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Chandra Galactic Center Deep Field
8.4 x 8.4 arcminutes
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radio source E1Ho et al 1985
E1: Chandracounterpart
Γ = 1.22 +/- 0.20
L(0.5-8 keV) = 8 x 1034 ergs/s
h et al. in prep. ; Poster 9−2
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X-ray Point Sources
• 2287 sources have been resolved.
• 278 are of the foreground in the galactic center.
• About 40 are background AGN
• Sources have LX=1030-1033 erg s-1 (2-8 keV)
Muno et al. (2003)
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Spatial Distribution
• Consistent with an isothermal sphere (1/R2)
• Similar to spatial density of bright infrared stars in Nuclear Bulge
• Could provide important information about star formation history
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kT = 5.6 +/- 3.9
kT = 0.8 +/- 0.2 k
kT = 0.56 +/- 0.11 keV
KT = 1.96 +/- 0.26 keV
kT = 2.5 +/- 0.7 keV
Bipolar Lobes
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X-ray Emission-Line Equivalent-Width Maps
Fe Heα
(E ~ 6.7 keV)
Fe Kα “neutral”
(E ~ 6.4 keV)
S Heα + Lyα
(E ~ 2.5 keV)
Si Heα
(E ~ 1.8 keV)
Park et al. (2003), submitted to ApJ
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Bipolar LobesGalactic Center Bipolar Lobes
• Lobe material distributed differently than “hot” (6.7 keV) and fluorescent “neutral” (6.4 keV) Fe
• Emission grows in intensity and size perpendicular to Galactic plane toward lower energies
• Te ~ 2 x 107 K• ne ~ 1 cm-3
• Separate lumps may indicate separate episodes of activity spaced by 2000−5000 yr
• Timescale for outer portions to flow from Sgr A*: 104
yr (vout/1000 km s-1)• Mass per blob ~ 1 Msun
• Origin: Sgr A* or star formation in central parsec?
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X-ray Features in the Vicinity of the Sgr A Radio Complex
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0.25 pc
IRS13
Sgr A*
CXOGC J174539.7-290020
CXOGC J174539.4-290031(AFNW)
The Central Parsec
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CXOGC J174539.7-290020Γ = 1.74 +/- 0.11
Γ = 1.55 +/- 0.15
Γ = 1.92 +/- 0.17
entire structure1.1 x 1034 ergs/s(0.5 - 8 keV)
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Radio Image of the Sgr A West Minispiral
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Superposition of 2-8 keV x-ray contours on the mid-IR image.
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Radio Image of Sgr A West and Circumnuclear Disk
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X-ray Image and 6 cm Contours of Sgr A West
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2000 October 26-27
Oct 27 05:42 UT45x, 4 hr
(Baganoff et al. 2001)
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Jet Models - Markoff et al. 2001
Some models predict largemm or IR variations duringX-ray flares, while others donot
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ADAF Model – Narayan 2002
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Observatories Participating in Sgr A* Monitoring Campaign
• Chandra (12−62 nm)• Keck (2 & 10 µm)• Very Large Telescope (3−5 µm)• Magellan (10 µm)• Submillimeter Array (1.3 mm)• Caltech OVRO Millimeter Array (3 mm)• Australia Telescope Compact Array (3 mm)• Very Large Baseline Array (7 mm)• Very Large Array (7mm, 1.3 cm, 2 cm)
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2002 May 22-23 – Orbit 1, Part 1
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2002 May 24 – Orbit 1, Part 2
May 24 19:42 UT5x, 1.7 hr
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2002 May 25-27 – Orbit 2
May 26 04:24 UT6x, 0.75 hr
May 24 19:42 UT5x, 1 hr
May 26 13:47 UT5x, 0.5 hr
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2002 May 28-30 – Orbit 3May 28 15:36 UT
25x, 1 hrMay 29 18:33 UT
13x, 0.5 hr
May 29 06:03 UT12x, 1.5 hr
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2002 June 3-4 – Orbit 5
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Sgr A* Multiwavlength Monitoring Campaign
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Three Large X-ray Flares from Sgr A*
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Very Long Baseline Array – 7 mm
•No significant flux variability detected•Upper limit about 30%•No extended structure appeared•Upper limit about 10 mJy.
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Integrated X-ray Spectrum of Sgr A*During Flares
Model: Absorbed, Dust-Scattered Power Law
NH = 6.0 x 1022 cm-2
Γ = 1.3 (0.9-1.8)
FX = 1.6 x 10-12 erg cm-2 s-1
LX = 2.0 x 1034 erg s-1
D = 8 kpc
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Integrated X-ray Spectrum of Sgr A* in Quiescence
Model: Absorbed, Dust-Scattered, Power Law Plus Line
NH = 5.9 x 1022 cm-2
Γ = 2.4 (2.3-2.6)
EFe = 6.59 (6.54-6.64) keVLine is narrow and NIE
FX = 1.8 x 10-13 erg cm-2 s-1
LX = 1.4 x 1033 erg s-1
D = 8 kpc
<LF> / <LQ> = 14.0
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X-ray Emission at Sgr A* is Extended
• Intrinsic size of emission at SgrA* is about 1.4 arcsec (FWHM)
• Consistent with Bondiaccretion radius for a 3x106
solar-mass black hole• Is emission from a hot
accretion flow or from stars in the central cluster?
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Summary - Sgr A* Flares
• Chandra observed Sgr A* for 139 hr over a two-week period in late May to early June 2002
• 3 X-ray flares with amplitudes >10x detected in a 28-hr period!• 4 X-ray flares with amplitudes ~5x detected in addition• “Factor-of-10” flares occur about once every other day, on
average• Typical flare duration is about 1 hr (0.5-4 hr)• Frequent, large-amplitude, short-duration flaring behavior of
Sgr A* is unique among supermassive black holes!• Probably selection effect: flares too faint to detect in other
galaxies• Behavior inconsistent with X-ray binaries and not seen from any of
the other >2,300 X-ray point sources in the field• Strong evidence that X-ray flaring source is the Milky Way’s
central, supermassive black hole!
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Summary – Sgr A* Flares (continued)
• No factor-of-2 or larger flares seen at longer wavelengths• Some evidence for variations at tens of percent level in millimeter
band on timescales of hours to days seen − upper limit currentlyabout 50%
• Efforts to improved calibration of millimeter data underway
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Keck L’ (3.8 µm) Lightcurves of Sgr A*
Ghez et al. (2003)
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Spectral Energy Distribution of Sgr A*
Spectral model: Yuan et al. 2003 ; L’ fluxes: Ghez et al. 2003
L’ (3.8 µm)
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Spectrum of Possible Jet-like Feature Near Sgr A*
Absorbed Power-law Model – Dust Corrected
Gamma = 1.8NH = 8.0 x 1022 cm-2
LX = 3.4 x 1032 erg s-1
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Summary – X-ray Jet• Discovery of an apparent X-ray jet from the Milky
Way’s central black hole• Not seen in other wavebands• Jet is 1 light-year long and located 1.5 light-
years from the black hole• Jet aligned with large-scale bipolar X-ray lobes• Lobes may be due to past ejections or outflows
from the supermassive black hole• Suggests we are seeing “fingerprints” of activity
over the past few thousand years• X-ray flares tell us about the current activity
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Conclusions• Rapid, large-amplitude X-ray flares are not
accompanied by significant radio and mm-band variations
• Sgr A* has now been detected in IR, and is variable on timescales of ~1 hr
• Future efforts– Continue coordinated multiwavelength monitoring to
detect simultaneous X-ray and IR flares• Identify emission mechanism and constrain physical
parameters (e.g., mag field strength, Lorentz factor, particle density near event horizon)
– Push multiwavelength monitoring to sub-mm and MIR/FIR