Advances in optical/infrared interferometry

F Eisenhauer, JD Monnier… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
After decades of fast-paced technical advances, optical/infrared (O/IR) interferometry has
seen a revolution in recent years:▪ The GRAVITY instrument at the Very Large Telescope …

[HTML][HTML] First Sagittarius A* event horizon telescope results. III. Imaging of the galactic center supermassive black hole

K Akiyama, A Alberdi, W Alef, JC Algaba… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Imaging of the Galactic Center
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Orbital motion near Sagittarius A*-Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations

M Wielgus, M Moscibrodzka, J Vos, Z Gelles… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We report on the polarized light curves of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole
Sagittarius A*, obtained at millimeter wavelength with the Atacama Large Millimeter …

[PDF][PDF] Fundamental physics opportunities with the next-generation event horizon telescope

D Ayzenberg, L Blackburn, R Brito… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Abstract The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration recently published the first
images of the supermassive black holes in the cores of the Messier 87 and Milky Way …

Polarimetry and astrometry of NIR flares as event horizon scale, dynamical probes for the mass of Sgr A

R Abuter, N Aimar, PA Seoane, A Amorim… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present new astrometric and polarimetric observations of flares from Sgr A* obtained
with GRAVITY, the near-infrared interferometer at ESO's Very Large Telescope …

Magnetic reconnection and hot spot formation in black hole accretion disks

B Ripperda, F Bacchini, AA Philippov - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Hot spots, or plasmoids, which form due to magnetic reconnection in current sheets, are
conjectured to power frequent X-ray and near-infrared flares from Sgr A*, the black hole in …

Observational properties of relativistic fluid spheres with thin accretion disks

JL Rosa - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this work we analyze the observational properties of incompressible relativistic fluid
spheres with and without thin-shells when surrounded by thin accretion disks. We consider a …

Observational signatures of hot spots orbiting horizonless objects

JL Rosa, P Garcia, FH Vincent, V Cardoso - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Pushed by a number of advances, electromagnetic observatories have now reached the
horizon scale of supermassive black holes. The existence and properties of horizons in our …

Sgr A* near-infrared flares from reconnection events in a magnetically arrested disc

J Dexter, A Tchekhovskoy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Large-amplitude Sgr A* near-infrared (NIR) flares result from energy injection into electrons
near the black hole event horizon. Astrometry data show continuous rotation of the emission …

Two-temperature GRMHD simulations of black hole accretion flows with multiple magnetic loops

HX Jiang, Y Mizuno, CM Fromm… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We have performed a series of two-dimensional two-temperature general relativistic
magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetized accretion flows initiated from tori with …