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First Mid-infrared Detection and Modeling of a Flare from Sgr A*. II. Mid-infrared Spectral Energy Distribution and Millimeter Polarimetry

  • Authors: Joseph M. Michail, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Garrett K. Keating, Ramprasad Rao, Tamojeet Roychowdhury, S. P. Willner, Nicole M. Ford, Daryl Haggard, Sera Markoff, Alexander Philippov, Bart Ripperda, Sophia Sanchez-Maes, Zach Sumners, Gunther Witzel, Mayura Balakrishnan, Sunil Chandra, Kazuhiro Hada, Macarena Garcia Marin, Mark A. Gurwell, Giovanni G. Fazio, Joseph L. Hora, Braden Seefeldt-Gail, Howard A. Smith

Joseph M. Michail et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 997 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Temporal evolution of the mid-IR SED during the flaring event. Top left: spectral-index variations. The dark gray shaded region is the total statistical uncertainty, while lighter gray denotes the total statistical + systematic range. Bottom left: intrinsic mid-IR light curves of Sgr A* in all four channels; the gray shaded region shows the statistical photometric noise in the measurement. The red and blue vertical bars denote times at which the time-resolved SEDs are plotted in Figure 1. Right panels: residual-extinction-corrected SEDs (see Appendix C) at different times during the observation. Each MIRI/MRS channel has been broken up into three equally wide frequency bins (connected points), and a best-fit power-law (solid lines) has been plotted. Shaded regions correspond to the statistical uncertainty in the measurement. The colors of data points in all panels correspond to the measured spectral indices.

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