Vol. 668
2. Astrophysical processes
Polarimetric signatures of sizzling spots in black gap accretion flows
The again gap on the middle of our Galaxy, Sagittarius A*, exhibits the prevalence of random flares that final a number of tens of minutes at X-ray and near-infrared wavelengths. One potential interpretation includes the emission of vivid spots within the accretion circulation near the again gap occasion horizon. On this paper, Vos and collaborators undertake a semi-analytic strategy to compute the polarimetric signature of those emitting blobs immersed in a tenuous accretion disk, together with all of the relativistic results because of the closeness to the central black gap. They discover attribute loop buildings within the polarization airplane, relying on the disk inclination, the black gap spin, and the construction of the magnetic area. Simulations for the blob emission have been carried out at millimeter wavelengths the place polarimetric variability from Sagittarius A* has already been noticed with the Atacama Giant Millimetre/submillimetre Array. These simulations present that the recognized attribute loopsin the polarization airplane are notably informative on the magnetic area topology, a amount in any other case tough to measure.
