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来自银河系中心恒星风的可变吸积和发射

Variable accretion and emission from the stellar winds in the Galactic centre

Jorge Cuadra, Sergei Nayakshin, Fabrice Martins

摘要:

我们提出了数值模拟的恒星风动力学在中央秒差距的银河系中心,特别是研究吸积气体的Sgr A*,超大质量的黑洞。与我们以前的工作不同,在这里,我们使用最先进的观测数据的轨道和风属性的个别产风恒星。由于风速向上修正,并考虑了非零偏心率,我们的新模拟显示更少的冷气体团,没有明显的盘状结构。吸积速率主要是由几颗v_w < 750 km/s的近距离“慢风星”决定的,与Bondi的估计一致,但在几十年到几百年的时间尺度上是可变的。这种变化是由于冷气体团的随机降落,就像在早期的模拟中一样,以及恒星的偏心轨道。目前的模型无法解释的高亮度的Sgr A* 几百年前暗示的积分观测,但我们认为,吸积一个小的碰撞参量冷clump可能造成it. Finally,我们显示的可能性约束的总质量损失率的“慢风星”使用近红外观测气体在中央的几个弧秒。

英文摘要:

We present numerical simulations of stellar wind dynamics in the central parsec of the Galactic centre, studying in particular the accretion of gas on to Sgr A*, the super-massive black hole. Unlike our previous work, here we use state-of-the-art observational data on orbits and wind properties of individual wind-producing stars. Since wind velocities were revised upwards and non-zero eccentricities were considered, our new simulations show fewer clumps of cold gas and no conspicuous disc-like structure. The accretion rate is dominated by a few close `slow wind stars' v_w < 750 km/s, and is consistent with the Bondi estimate, but variable on time-scales of tens to hundreds of years. This variability is due to the stochastic in-fall of cold clumps of gas, as in earlier simulations, and to the eccentric orbits of stars. The present models fail to explain the high luminosity of Sgr A* a few hundred years ago implied by Integral observations, but we argue that the accretion of a cold clump with a small impact parameter could have caused it. Finally, we show the possibility of constraining the total mass-loss rate of the `slow wind stars' using near infra-red observations of gas in the central few arcseconds.

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