7 mm lambda VLBA Observations of Sagittarius A*

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1998-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802030v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, aastex

Scientific paper

10.1086/311259

We present 7 mm lambda VLBA observations of the compact nonthermal radio source in the Galactic Center, Sgr A*. These observations confirm the hypothesis that the image of Sgr A* is a resolved elliptical Gaussian caused by the scattering of an intervening thermal plasma. The measured major axis of Sgr A* is 0.76 \pm 0.04 mas, consistent with the predicted scattering size of 0.67 \pm 0.03. We find an axial ratio of 0.73 \pm 0.10 and a position angle of 77.0 \pm 7.4 deg. These results are fully consistent with VLBI observations at longer wavelengths and at 3 mm lambda. We find no evidence for any additional compact structure to a limit of 35 mJy. The underlying radio source must be smaller than 4.1 AU for a galactocentric distance of 8.5 kpc. This result is consistent with the conclusion that the radio emission from Sgr A* results from synchrotron or cyclo-synchrotron radiation of gas in the vicinity of a black hole with a mass near 10^6 M_sun.

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