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arXiv 0812.3853astro-phgr-qc
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银河系中心大质量黑洞周围恒星的引力透镜

Gravitational lensing of stars orbiting the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center

Valerio Bozza, Luigi Mancini

摘要:

银河系中心存在一个巨大的黑洞,与射电源Sgr A* 重合,这一点正在越来越坚实的基础上得到证实。从原理上讲,这个黑洞就像一个引力透镜,能够弯曲在其附近运动的恒星发出的光,最终产生二次图像。将先前对引力透镜现象的分析扩展到一组新的28颗恒星,这些恒星的轨道已经通过最近的观测得到了很好的确定,我们计算了它们二次图像的所有属性,包括它们亮度峰值的时间和大小以及它们与中心黑洞的角距离。最佳的透镜候选者是恒星S6,因为它的二次像在峰值处的星等达到K=20.8,与中心黑洞的角距为0.3质量,正好在K波段天文仪器分辨率极限的边界。

英文摘要:

The existence of a massive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, coinciding with the radio source Sgr A*, is being established on more and more solid ground. In principle, this black hole, acting as a gravitational lens, is able to bend the light emitted by stars moving within its neighborhood, eventually generating secondary images. Extending a previous analysis of the gravitational lensing phenomenology to a new set of 28 stars, whose orbits have been well determined by recent observations, we have calculated all the properties of their secondary images, including time and magnitude of their luminosity peaks and their angular distances from the central black hole. The best lensing candidate is represented by the star S6, since the magnitude of its secondary image at the peak reaches K=20.8, with an angular separation of 0.3 mas from the central black hole, that is just at the borders of the resolution limit in the K band of incoming astronomical instruments.

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