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arXiv 2002.05173astro-ph.GA
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银河系中心中等质量黑洞的第五个候选者

The Fifth Candidate for an Intermediate-mass Black Hole in the Galactic Center

Shunya Takekawa, Tomoharu Oka, Yuhei Iwata, Shiho Tsujimoto, Mariko Nomura

摘要:

本文报道了用阿塔卡玛大型毫米/亚毫米波天线阵对高速致密云HCN-0.085-0.094进行高分辨率分子谱线观测的结果。HCN J=4-3、HCO $^+$ J=4-3和CS J=7-6的线图像显示HCN-0.085-0.094主要由三个具有极宽速度宽度的小团块组成。这三个团块中的每一个在其朝向Sgr A $^*$的外围都有一个5.5 GHz的无线电连续谱对应物。位置关系表明,它们的表面已经被来自中央星团年轻恒星的紫外光子电离,这表明这些团块非常接近银河系核心。其中一个团块具有速度梯度非常陡的环状结构。这种运动学结构表明它的轨道围绕着一个质量为$\sim 10^4$ $M_\odot$的点状物体。没有恒星对应物表明,点状物体可能是一个静止的黑洞。这一发现在我们银河系的中心区域增加了另一个中等质量的黑洞候选者。

英文摘要:

We report the results of high-resolution molecular line observations of the high-velocity compact cloud HCN-0.085-0.094 with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. The HCN J=4-3, HCO$^+$ J=4-3, and CS J=7-6 line images reveal that HCN-0.085-0.094 consists mainly of three small clumps with extremely broad velocity widths. Each of the three clumps has a 5.5 GHz radio continuum counterpart in its periphery toward Sgr A$^*$. The positional relationship indicates that their surfaces have been ionized by ultraviolet photons from young stars in the central cluster, suggesting the clumps are in close proximity to the Galactic nucleus. One of the three clumps has a ring-like structure with a very steep velocity gradient. This kinematical structure suggests an orbit around a point-like object with a mass of $\sim 10^4$ $M_\odot$. The absence of stellar counterparts indicates that the point-like object may be a quiescent black hole. This discovery adds another intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the central region of our Galaxy.

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