Clockwise stellar disk and the dark mass in the Galactic center

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作者
Beloborodov, Andrei M.
Levin, Yuri
Eisenhauer, Frank
Genzel, Reinhard
Paumard, Thibaut
Gillessen, Stefan
Ott, Thomas
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, New York, NY 10027 USA
[3] Ctr Astro Space, Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow 117810, Russia
[4] Leiden Univ, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
[5] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[6] Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys, D-37075 Garching, Germany
关键词
galaxies : general; Galaxy : center; stellar dynamics;
D O I
10.1086/504279
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Two disks of young stars have recently been discovered in the Galactic center. The disks are rotating in the gravitational field of the central black hole at radii r similar to 0.1-0.3 pc and thus open a new opportunity to measure the central mass. We find that the observed motion of stars in the clockwise disk implies the mass within -0.1 pc M (4.3 +/- 0.5) x 10(6) M-circle dot for the fiducial distance to the Galactic center R-0 = 8 kpc, and we derive the scaling of M with R-0. As a tool for our estimate we use orbital roulette, a recently developed method. The method reconstructs the three-dimensional orbits of the disk stars and checks the randomness of their orbital phases. We also estimate the three-dimensional positions and orbital eccentricities of the clockwise-disk stars.
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页码:405 / 410
页数:6
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