Detection of polarized mm and submm emission from SgrA*

Details Detection of polarized mm and submm emission from SgrA* Detection of polarized mm and submm emission from SgrA*

2000-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0003379v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

(12 pages, 1 figure, accepted by ApJ Letters)

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We report the detection of linear polarization from SgrA* at 750, 850, 1350 and 2000 microns which confirms the contribution of synchrotron radiation. From the lack of polarization at longer wavelengths it appears to arise in the millimetre/sub-millimetre excess. There are large position angle changes between the millimetre and sub-millimetre results and these are discussed in terms of a polarized dust contribution in the sub-millimetre and various synchrotron models. In the model which best explains the data the synchrotron radiation from the excess is self-absorbed in the millimetre region and becomes optically thin in the sub-millimetre. This implies that the excess arises in an extremely compact source to the order of 2 Schwarzschild radii.

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