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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 9.

Five best-fit modeled spectra and the broadband spectral data that we used. The gray band between ν ≈ 1011 Hz and ≈1012 Hz marks the frequency range over which we perform the least-squares fits. The gray line at ν ≈ 1014 Hz marks the infrared frequency at which we used the range of fluxes observed at different times to impose an upper and lower bound on the models. The gray line at ν ≈ 1018 Hz marks the X-ray frequency, at where we used 10% of the observed quiescent flux (the open circle below the bow-tie) to fix the density normalization in the flow. The white dotted line inside the gray band marks λ = 1.3 mm, where we used the EHT measurement of the image size. The model parameters are marked as white circles in Figure 8 and listed in Table 2.

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