A disk in the Galactic Center in the past?

Emmi Meyer-Hofmeister, Friedrich Meyer and Bifang Liu


(1) Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

Paper: GrowingBlackHoles, in press

EPrint Server: astro-ph/0410071


Abstract:

We raise the question whether in the past a disk could have existed in our Galactic Center which has disappeared now. Our model for the interaction of a cool disk and a hot corona above (Liu et al. 2004) allows to estimate an upper limit for the mass that might have been present in a putative accretion disk after a last star forming event, but would now have evaporated by coronal action.


Preprints available from the authors at emm@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE , or the raw TeX (no figures) if you click here.

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