Sagittarius A*: A Supermassive Black Hole or a Spatially Extended Object?
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- 20 December 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 509 (2) , L105-L108
- https://doi.org/10.1086/311770
Abstract
We report here on a calculation of possible orbits of the fast moving infrared source S1 which has been recently observed by Eckart and Genzel (1997) near the Galactic center. It is shown that tracking of the orbit of S1 or any other fast moving star near Sgr A^* offers a possibility of distinguishing between the supermassive black hole and extended object scenarios of Sgr A^*. In our calculations we assumed that the extended object at the Galactic center is a non-baryonic ball made of degenerate, self-gravitating heavy neutrino matter, as it has been recently proposed by Tsiklauri & Viollier (1998a,b).Comment: AASTEX, 5 postscript figs., submitted to ApJ LetKeywords
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