Intra-Day Variation of Sagittarius A* at Short Millimeter Wavelengths

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2004-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407252v1

Astrophys.J. 611 (2004) L97-L100

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/424004

We have performed the monitoring observations of flux density of Sagittarius A* at short millimeter wavelengths (100 and 140 GHz bands) on seven years in the period from 1996 to 2003 using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA). We found intra-day variation of Sgr A* in March 2000 flare. The flux density at the peak of the flares increases 100-200 % at 100 GHz and 200-400 % at 140 GHz ($?Delta S/S$), respectively. The two-fold increase timescale of the flare is estimated to be about 1.5 hours at 140 GHz. The intra-day variation at mm-wavelengths has similar increase timescale as those in the X-ray and infrared flares but has smaller amplitude. This short timescale variability suggests that the physical size of the emitting region is smaller than 12 AU $?approx$ 150 Rs). The decay timescale of the flare was at most 24 hours. Such a light curve with rapid increase and slow decay is similar to that often observed in outburst phenomena with ejections.

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