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Figure 1: The up-comptonized emission of the close star S2 during its closest approach to Sgr A* in 2002 for five different accretion flows, as marked in the figure. The spectrum of the star illuminating the inner 100 Schwarzschild radii of the flow is also shown for comparison. The Chandra data with uncertainties (Baganoff et al. 2003) are shown with the bow-tie. |
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Figure 2: The lightcurve of the optical/UV radiation of the close star S2 up-comptonized by the accretion flow into the X-ray band. The upper panel shows the lightcurve on time scales of tens of years, while the lower one shows the emission during 2002 when S2 passes through the pericenter of its orbit. The filled triangles mark the epochs when Chandra observed the Galactic Center region (Park et al. 2004; Eckart et al. 2004). The y-coordinate of the triangles in the figure is arbitrary. |
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