The Second Galactic Center Black Hole?; A Possible Detection of Ionized Gas Orbiting around an IMBH embedded in the Galactic Center IRS13E complex

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العنوان: The Second Galactic Center Black Hole?; A Possible Detection of Ionized Gas Orbiting around an IMBH embedded in the Galactic Center IRS13E complex
المؤلفون: Kenta Uehara, Masato Tsuboi, Yoshimi Kitamura, Takahiro Tsutsumi, Ryosuke Miyawaki, Makoto Miyoshi, Atsushi Miyazaki
بيانات النشر: arXiv, 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
مصطلحات موضوعية: Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Submillimeter Array, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Very Long Baseline Array, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), accretion, accretion disks, Supermassive black hole, stars: formation, Spiral galaxy, Galaxy: center, Galactic Center, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Intermediate-mass black hole, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
الوصف: The Galactic Center is the nuclear region of the nearest spiral galaxy, Milky Way, and contains the supermassive black hole with M~4x10^6 Msun, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). One of basic questions about the Galactic Center is whether Sgr A* alone exists as a "massive" black hole in the region or not. The IRS13E complex is a very intriguing IR object which contains a large dark mass comparable to the mass of an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) from the proper motions of the main member stars. However, the existence of the IMBH remains controversial. There are some objections to accepting the existence of the IMBH. In this study, we detected ionized gas with a very large velocity width (Delta v_{FWZI} ~ 650 km/s) and a very compact size (~400 AU) in the complex using ALMA. We also found an extended component connecting with the compact ionized gas. The properties suggest that this would be an ionized gas flow on the Keplerian orbit with high eccentricity. The enclosed mass is estimated to be 10^4 Msun by the analysis of the orbit. The mass does not conflict with the upper limit mass of the IMBH around Sgr A* which is derived by the long-term astrometry with VLBA. In addition, the object probably has an X-ray counterpart. Consequently, a very fascinated possibility is that the detected ionized gas is rotating around an IMBH embedded in the IRS13E complex.
Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in APJL
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00612
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::6ab38695cbe74975e1f54eb5940b5ab6
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi.dedup.....6ab38695cbe74975e1f54eb5940b5ab6
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1711.00612