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THE POWER OF IMAGING: CONSTRAINING THE PLASMA PROPERTIES OF GRMHD SIMULATIONS USING EHT OBSERVATIONS OF Sgr A*

  • Authors: Chi-Kwan Chan, Dimitrios Psaltis, Feryal Özel, Ramesh Narayan, and Aleksander Sa¸dowski

Chan et al. 2015 The Astrophysical Journal 799 1.

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Caption: Figure 3.

Simulated images of Sgr A* at three frequencies using the simulation a9MAD with the fiducial model parameters. The color scale for each row is shown on the right, with unity being the maximum flux (the same color scales are used in the subsequent image plots). The different columns, from left to right, depict images computed on different zoom scales of 512rS × 512rS, 128rS × 128rS, and 32rS × 32rS. In order to preserve individual visible features in the accretion flows, we average only the 10 last snapshots, i.e., between t =47,900 and 47,990. The low frequency radio and the X-ray emission originate from large volumes, whereas the infrared emission primarily arises from the inner accretion flow.

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