Short timescale variation in the submillimeter flux of Sagittarius A*
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| author | Miyoshi, Makoto Kato, Yoshiaki Asaki, Yoshiharu Tsuboi, Masato Uehara, Kenta Oka, Tomoharu Takahashi, Masaaki Ishitsuka, José K. Tsutsumi, Takahiro Miyazaki, Atsushi Matsumoto, Ryoji |
| author_facet | Miyoshi, Makoto Kato, Yoshiaki Asaki, Yoshiharu Tsuboi, Masato Uehara, Kenta Oka, Tomoharu Takahashi, Masaaki Ishitsuka, José K. Tsutsumi, Takahiro Miyazaki, Atsushi Matsumoto, Ryoji |
| contents | We study short-timescale 340 GHz flux-density variability of Sgr A* using ALMA Cycle 3 observations. Careful self-calibration enabled 10 s snapshot imaging with very high effective image-domain SNR, allowing high-cadence monitoring of Galactic Center sources. To reduce atmospheric and instrumental effects, we measured Sgr A* relative to multiple non-variable sources in the same field and corrected apparent variability caused by time-dependent u-v coverage and PSF changes using simulations with a static input model. We then searched for characteristic timescales over 20 s < tau < Tobs/3 using structure functions, the Lomb--Scargle method, and state-space-model autoregressive spectral analysis. No dominant narrow periodicity is found. Instead, the data show a short-timescale flat, white-noise-like regime at tau below about 2.3--6.3 min, followed by red-noise-like behavior at longer timescales. This flat regime appears in both active and quiescent phases, suggesting statistically independent fluctuations on these timescales. We interpret its upper boundary as an empirical transition timescale between decorrelated short-timescale fluctuations and longer-timescale correlated variability. The physical origin of this flat component remains uncertain, since previous theoretical and numerical studies more commonly report red-noise-like or broken-power-law variability. |
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| spellingShingle | Short timescale variation in the submillimeter flux of Sagittarius A* Miyoshi, Makoto Kato, Yoshiaki Asaki, Yoshiharu Tsuboi, Masato Uehara, Kenta Oka, Tomoharu Takahashi, Masaaki Ishitsuka, José K. Tsutsumi, Takahiro Miyazaki, Atsushi Matsumoto, Ryoji Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena We study short-timescale 340 GHz flux-density variability of Sgr A* using ALMA Cycle 3 observations. Careful self-calibration enabled 10 s snapshot imaging with very high effective image-domain SNR, allowing high-cadence monitoring of Galactic Center sources. To reduce atmospheric and instrumental effects, we measured Sgr A* relative to multiple non-variable sources in the same field and corrected apparent variability caused by time-dependent u-v coverage and PSF changes using simulations with a static input model. We then searched for characteristic timescales over 20 s < tau < Tobs/3 using structure functions, the Lomb--Scargle method, and state-space-model autoregressive spectral analysis. No dominant narrow periodicity is found. Instead, the data show a short-timescale flat, white-noise-like regime at tau below about 2.3--6.3 min, followed by red-noise-like behavior at longer timescales. This flat regime appears in both active and quiescent phases, suggesting statistically independent fluctuations on these timescales. We interpret its upper boundary as an empirical transition timescale between decorrelated short-timescale fluctuations and longer-timescale correlated variability. The physical origin of this flat component remains uncertain, since previous theoretical and numerical studies more commonly report red-noise-like or broken-power-law variability. |
| title | Short timescale variation in the submillimeter flux of Sagittarius A* |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22144 |