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Advancing Fundamental Physics and Cosmology with high-resolution X-ray imaging
Sara Turriziani, Herman L. Marshall, Daryl Haggard +4
Black Holes are the key to solving many unanswered questions in fundamental physics: in particular, the very extreme properties shown by supermassive black holes at the centers of…
Galactic Science with Ultra-High Angular Resolution X-ray Imaging
Paul A. Draghis, Jeremy Hare, Mayura Balakrishnan +8
Milli- to micro-arcsecond X-ray imaging will open a new observational regime for Galactic astrophysics by resolving physical scales that are inaccessible to current X-ray observato…
Interacting stellar winds feeding Sgr A*: from the system of mass-losing stars to the binary IRS 16SW
Diego Calderón, Jorge Cuadra, Christopher M. P. Russell +3
The discovery of cold structures around Sgr A* has challenged our understanding of the gas dynamics and thermodynamic state of the plasma in its vicinity. This work aims to constra…
The Demographics of Sagittarius A* X-ray Flares over 25 Years with Chandra
Zach Sumners, Nicole M. Ford, Daryl Haggard +10
We present the Chandra 25-year Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) X-ray flare catalog: a systematic analysis of 6.8 Ms of Sgr A* monitoring spanning the Chandra X-ray Observatory's mission li…
Ionization Structure and Metal Enrichment of the Galactic Center Minispiral Observed with JWST
Nicole M Ford, Mayura Balakrishnan, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +11
Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the nearest quiescent supermassive black hole, and its proximity offers a unique opportunity to study its surrounding fuel supply. We leverage extensive…
Infrared Line Diagnostics Fail to Constrain Sgr A*'s UV Output
Mayura Balakrishnan, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Daryl Haggard +11
Sgr A*, the 4 x supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, exhibits frequent flaring with X-ray luminosities of erg s, while i…
Isolating Sgr A East: The First Uncontaminated X-ray Maps of a Galactic Center Supernova Remnant
Mayura Balakrishnan, Adrien Picquenot, Lia Corales +3
The central few parsecs of the Milky Way host a complex X-ray-emitting environment in which several extended plasma components are blended along the line of sight, complicating att…
Detection and Evolution of Linear Polarization of the Galactic Center Transient MAXI J1744-294
Joseph M. Michail, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Mayura Balakrishnan +14
MAXI J1744294, likely a low-mass X-ray binary system, is a Galactic-center transient source, detected at radio and X-ray wavelengths, located approximately southeast of S…
A Therapy Session with Sgr A*
Mayura Balakrishnan, Robert Frazier, Joseph Michail
The nature of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) has been the subject of intense study and debate for over half a century. Herein, we present the first successful interview with an astrophysi…
First Mid-infrared Detection and Modeling of a Flare from Sgr A*. II. Mid-IR Spectral Energy Distribution and Millimeter Polarimetry
Joseph M. Michail, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Garrett K. Keating +20
S. D. von Fellenberg et al. (2025a, Paper I) reported the first mid-infrared detection of a flare from Sgr A*. The JWST/MIRI/MRS observations were consistent with an orbiting hotsp…
Overionized plasma in the supernova remnant Sagittarius A East anchored by XRISM observations
XRISM Collaboration
Sagittarius A East is a supernova remnant with a unique surrounding environment, as it is located in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center, S…
MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept
Mayura Balakrishnan, Rory Bowens, Fernando Cruz Aguirre +18
We present the mission concept "Mission to Analyze the UltraViolet universE" (MAUVE), a wide-field spectrometer and imager conceived during the inaugural NASA Astrophysics Mission…
The formation and stability of a cold disc made out of stellar winds in the Galactic Centre
Diego Calderón, Jorge Cuadra, Christopher M. P. Russell +3
The reported discovery of a cold (~10 K) disc-like structure within 0.005 pc around the super-massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, has challenged our unde…
Multistructured accretion flow of Sgr A* II: Signatures of a Cool Accretion Disk in Hydrodynamic Simulations of Stellar Winds
Mayura Balakrishnan, Christopher M. P. Russell, Lia Corrales +8
Hydrodynamic simulations of the stellar winds from Wolf-Rayet stars within the Galactic Center can provide predictions for the X-ray spectrum of supermassive black hole Sgr A*. Her…
Multistructured accretion flow of Sgr A* I: Examination of a RIAF model
Mayura Balakrishnan, Lia Corrales, Sera Markoff +8
The extreme low-luminosity supermassive black hole Sgr A* provides a unique laboratory in which to test radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) models. Previous fits to the q…