2024MNRAS.530.3740G

Query : 2024MNRAS.530.3740G

2024MNRAS.530.3740G - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 530, 3740-3751 (2024/June-1)

Using the motion of S2 to constrain vector clouds around Sgr A*.

GRAVITY COLLABORATION, FOSCHI A., ABUTER R., ABD EL DAYEM K., AIMAR N., AMARO SEOANE P., AMORIM A., BERGER J.P., BONNET H., BOURDAROT G., BRANDNER W., DAVIES R., DE ZEEUW P.T., DEFRERE D., DEXTER J., DRESCHER A., ECKART A., EISENHAUER F., FORSTER SCHREIBER N.M., GARCIA P.J.V., GENZEL R., GILLESSEN S., GOMES T., HAUBOIS X., HEISSEL G., HENNING T., JOCHUM L., JOCOU L., KAUFER A., KREIDBERG L., LACOUR S., LAPEYRERE V., LE BOUQUIN J.-B., LENA P., LUTZ D., MANG F., MILLOUR F., OTT T., PAUMARD T., PERRAUT K., PERRIN G., PFUHL O., RABIEN S., RIBEIRO D.C., SADUN BORDONI M., SCHEITHAUER S., SHANGGUAN J., SHIMIZU T., STADLER J., STRAUBMEIER C., STURM E., SUBROWEIT M., TACCONI L.J., VINCENT F., VON FELLENBERG S. and WOILLEZ J.

Abstract (from CDS):

The dark compact object at the centre of the Milky Way is well established to be a supermassive black hole with mass $M_{\bullet } \sim 4.3 \times 10^6 \, {\rm M}_{\odot }$, but the nature of its environment is still under debate. In this work, we used astrometric and spectroscopic measurements of the motion of the star S2, one of the closest stars to the massive black hole, to determine an upper limit on an extended mass composed of a massive vector field around Sagittarius A*. For a vector with effective mass $10^{-19} \lesssim m_\mathrm{ s} \lesssim 10^{-18} \, \rm eV$, our Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis shows no evidence for such a cloud, placing an upper bound $M_{\rm cloud} \lesssim 0.1 \% \, M_{\bullet }$ at 3σ confidence level. We show that dynamical friction exerted by the medium on S2 motion plays no role in the analysis performed in this and previous works, and can be neglected thus.

Abstract Copyright: © 2024. The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): black hole physics - gravitation - celestial mechanics - Galaxy: centre - dark matter

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Number of rows : 4
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 NAME Galactic Center reg 17 45 39.60213 -29 00 22.0000           ~ 16269 0
2 NAME Sgr A* X 17 45 40.03599 -29 00 28.1699           ~ 4970 3
3 NAME G2 Dust Cloud IR 17 45 40.04 -29 00 28.1           ~ 209 0
4 [EG97] S2 * 17 45 40.0442 -29 00 27.975           B0/2V 420 1

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