1301.3906 (A. Sadowski et al.)

Radio light curves during the passage of cloud G2 near Sgr A*    [PDF]

A. Sadowski, L. Sironi, D. Abarca, X. Guo, F. Ozel, R. Narayan

We calculate radio light curves produced by the bow shock that is likely to form in front of the G2 cloud when it penetrates the accretion disk of Sgr A*. The shock acceleration of the radio-emitting electrons is captured self-consistently by means of first-principles particle-in-cell simulations. We show that the radio luminosity is expected to rise in early 2013 and reach maximum in late summer. We estimate the peak radio flux at 1.4GHz to be 1.4 - 22Jy depending on the assumed orbit orientation and parameters. We show that the most promising frequencies for radio observations are in the 0.1<\nu<1GHz range, for which the bow shock emission will be much stronger than the intrinsic radio flux for all the models considered.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3906