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超高速星和Sgr A的环境

Hypervelocity stars and the environment of Sgr A*

A. Sesana, F. Haardt, P. Madau

摘要:

超高速恒星(HVS)是银河系中心存在大质量核黑洞(Sgr A*)的自然结果。本文利用Brown等人的非束缚和束缚HVS样本,结合HVS在银河系晕中传播的数值模拟,对三种可能的抛射机制进行了约束:1)吸入中等质量黑洞(IMBH)对束缚在Sgr A* 上的恒星的散射;(3)围绕着Sgr A* 运行的恒星质量黑洞群的两体散射。我们将预测的HVS径向和速度分布与目前可用的有限统计数据集进行比较,并表明IMBH模型似乎产生了过于平坦的喷射速度谱。未来的天体测量和深宽场调查的HVS应该清楚地阐明恒星弹射机制和探测银河系的潜力规模高达200千秒差距。

英文摘要:

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are a natural consequence of the presence of a massive nuclear black hole (Sgr A*) in the Galactic Center. Here we use the Brown et al. sample of unbound and bound HVSs together with numerical simulations of the propagation of HVSs in the Milky Way halo to constrain three plausible ejection mechanisms: 1) the scattering of stars bound to Sgr A* by an inspiraling intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH); 2) the disruption of stellar binaries in the tidal field of Sgr A*; and 3) the two-body scattering of stars off a cluster of stellar-mass black holes orbiting Sgr A*. We compare the predicted radial and velocity distributions of HVSs with the limited-statistics dataset currently available, and show that the IMBH model appears to produce a spectrum of ejection velocities that is too flat. Future astrometric and deep wide-field surveys of HVSs should shed unambiguous light on the stellar ejection mechanism and probe the Milky Way potential on scales as large as 200 kpc.

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