Radiative energy from a reconnection region around massive black hole. Issue 4 (11th October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhao, Tian-Le; Kumar, Rajiv
• Is Part Of: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 508:Issue 4(2021)
• Page Start: 5251
• Page End: 5258
• Publication Date: 2021-10-11
• Subjects: magnetic reconnection -- MHD -- plasmas -- radiation mechanisms: non-thermal -- galaxies: jets; Astronomy -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 520.5
• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2919
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0035-8711

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In the previous numerical study, we find the blob formation and ejection in the presence of magnetic reconnection in the environment of the hot flow of the accretion disc. Based on those encouraging results, in the present work, we calculate the energy and the spectrum of the emission in the different bands around sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). We assume the electrons in the magnetic reconnection region are non-thermal and emit synchrotron radiation. The electrons in the other region are thermal, which follows the thermal distribution, and the thermal electron emission mechanism is thermal synchrotron radiation. During the whole process of the magnetic evolution and reconnection, we find two peaks in the temporal light curve in the recently observed radio frequencies (230 and 43 GHz) and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths (3.8 and 2.2 μm). Although the light curve of the NIR band is most prominent in a single peak. The first peak appears because of the blob in the plasma flow, which is formed due to the magnetic reconnection. The second peak appears due to the production of the non-thermal electrons with the evolution of the magnetic flux. Both peaks reach luminosity of more than 10 26 erg s −1 for a single plasmoid/blob. For the NIR band, the highest luminosity can reach more than 10 28 erg s −1 . These luminosities can be high for the large simulation area and the stronger magnetic field with the multiple blobs. We infer that the observed flares are a group of magnetic reconnection phenomena, not a single one.