The centroid shift of Sgr A*

  • Cho, Il-Je (Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI)) ;
  • Sohn, Bong Won (Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI)) ;
  • Jung, Taehyun (Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI)) ;
  • Kino, Motoki (Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI)) ;
  • Zhao, Guang-Yao (Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI)) ;
  • Agudo, Ivan (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andaluica (CSIC)) ;
  • Rioja, Maria (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)) ;
  • Dodson, Richard (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR))
  • Published : 2016.10.12

Abstract

The Galactic center, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is the closest supermassive black hole and emits synchrotron radiation. It provides great opportunity to study the origin of mm/sub-mm emission. Currently, two competing models have been suggested as a jet base and a radiatively inecient accretion flow (RIAF). To unveil the properties, the extremely high resolution(${\sim}10{\mu}as$) corresponding to the projected Schwarzschild radius of ~0.1AU is necessary. With KVN, a jet model can be tested by multi- frequency simultaneous observations because the optically thick surface in a jet (i.e. radio core) moves toward the center at a higher frequency. We conducted 8 observations with KVN at 43/86GHz in 2015, and found that the measured positional shift to the reference calibrator, J1744-3116, was ~0.3 mas to the south of Sgr A* using the source frequency phase referencing (SFPR) at Q/W bands for the first time. With the result, in the future, we will attempt to measure the variation of source position shifts that can constrain the direction of approaching jets and the variability of black hole activity of Sgr A*.

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