The galactic supermassive black hole /
Here, one of the world's leading astrophysicists provides the first comprehensive and logically structured overview of the many ideas and discoveries pertaining to the supermassive black hole at the galactic center known as Sagittarius A*. By far the closest galactic nucleus in the universe, Sa...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The galactic center
- Discover of Sagittarius A*
- Radio morphology of the central region
- X-ray morphology of the central region
- Sagittarius A east
- The radio source Sagittarius A*
- Position of Sagittarius A*
- Proper motion
- Structure as a function of frequency
- Sagittarius A*'s spectrum
- The radio spectrum
- Linear and circular polarization
- Infrared observations
- X-ray observations
- Observed high-energy characteristics
- Variability
- Short-term variability in the IR and X-rays
- Long-term variability in the radio
- The central star cluster
- The stellar cusp surrounding the black hole
- Stellar constituents and dynamics
- Stellar orbits and the enclosed mass
- The four-dimensional spacetime
- The flat spacetime metric
- Relativistic transformation of physical laws
- Accelerated frames
- General relativity
- Particle orbits and trajectories
- The Kerr metric
- Mass accretion and expulsion
- Sagittarius A*'s gaseous environment
- Bondi-Hoyle capture from distributed sources
- Accretion close to Sagittarius A*
- Magnetic field dissipation
- A compact magnetized disk
- Expulsion of matter
- Flares
- Flare physics
- Periodicity
- General relativistic flux modulations
- Strong field physics
- Spin-induced disk precession
- Microlensing
- Imaging the shadow of the black hole.