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Sgr A* 分解图像的时域滤波

Time Domain Filtering of Resolved Images of Sgr A*

Hotaka Shiokawa, Charles F. Gammie, Sheperd S. Doeleman

摘要:

事件视界望远镜(EHT)的目标是提供与银河系中心黑洞有关的Sgr A* 的空间分辨图像。由于Sgr A* 变化的时间尺度短的EHT观测活动相比,它是有趣的,问是否可变性包含的吸积流的结构和动力学的信息。在本文中,我们介绍了“时域滤波”,一种技术,过滤时间波动的图像与特定的时间频率范围内,并证明了电源和使用的技术,将其应用到模拟毫米波图像的Sgr A*。模拟图像数据由广义相对论磁流体动力学(GRMHD)模拟和广义相对论射线追踪方法生成。我们表明,在每个视线的变化是密切相关的一个典型的半径的排放。这是因为圆盘的发射率在一个时间尺度上波动,这个时间尺度的量级是当地的轨道周期。因此,时域滤波图像反映了依赖于模型的发射半径分布,这在时间平均图像中是不可访问的。我们表明,在原则上,过滤后的数据有能力区分模型与不同的黑洞自旋,不同的磁盘视角,不同的磁盘在天空中的方向。

英文摘要:

The goal of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is to provide spatially resolved images of Sgr A*, the source associated with the Galactic Center black hole. Because Sgr A* varies on timescales short compared to an EHT observing campaign, it is interesting to ask whether variability contains information about the structure and dynamics of the accretion flow. In this paper, we introduce "time-domain filtering", a technique to filter time fluctuating images with specific temporal frequency ranges, and demonstrate the power and usage of the technique by applying it to mock millimeter wavelength images of Sgr A*. The mock image data is generated from General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation and general relativistic ray-tracing method. We show that the variability on each line of sight is tightly correlated with a typical radius of emission. This is because disk emissivity fluctuates on a timescale of order the local orbital period. Time-domain filtered images therefore reflect the model dependent emission radius distribution, which is not accessible in time-averaged images. We show that, in principle, filtered data have the power to distinguish between models with different black hole spins, different disk viewing angles, and different disk orientations in the sky.

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