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2019MNRAS.482.3669G - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 482, 3669-3677 (2019/January-3)

Astrometric detection of intermediate-mass black holes at the Galactic Centre.

GIRMA E. and LOEB A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We assess the astrometric detectability of intermediate-mass black holes populating the inner parsec of the Milky Way Galaxy. The presence of these objects induces dynamical effects on Sgr A* and the star S2, which could be detected by next generation astrometric instruments that enable microarcsec astrometry. An allowed population of ten 104 M intermediate-mass black holes within one parsec induces an angular shift of ∼65 µasyr–1 on the position of Sgr A*, corresponding to a perpendicular velocity component magnitude of 1.6 kms–1. It also induces changes in the orbit of S2 that surpass those induced by general relativity but lie within observational constraints, generating a mean angular shift in periapse and apoapse of 62 and 970 uas, respectively.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): black hole physics - methods: numerical - Galaxy: centre

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