Sgr A*: A supermassive black hole or a spatially extended object?

F. Munyaneza, D. Tsiklauri, & R.D. Viollier


Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa

Paper: submitted to ApJ Lett.

Weblink: http://pc021.phy.uct.ac.za/tsiklauri/pub.html

EPrint Server: astro-ph/9808219


Abstract:

We report here on a calculation of possible orbits of the fast moving infrared source S1 which has been recently observed by Eckart & 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).


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