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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 7.

Calculated images at 1.3 mm for (top) the a0SANE simulation using the constant ratio model and (bottom) the a9SANE simulation using the constant temperature model. All of the parameters of the plasma model correspond to the best-fit configurations in each case (and not to the fiducial model, as in the previous figures). The leftmost panels are the results of the direct ray tracing calculations. The remaining columns show the effect of broadening caused by interstellar scattering. Because the relative position angle, ΔPA, between the spin axis of the black hole and the major axis of the scattering kernel is not known, the three columns show the resulting images for three different relative position angles as examples.

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