Dark matter concentration in the galactic center

David Tsiklauri and Raoul D. Viollier

(1) Physics Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa

Paper: ApJ, Vol. 500, June 20


Abstract:

It is shown that the matter concentration observed through stellar motion at the galactic center (Eckart & Genzel, 1997, MNRAS, 284, 576 and Genzel et al., 1996, ApJ, 472, 153) is consistent with a supermassive object of 2.5 * 106 solar masses composed of self-gravitating, degenerate heavy neutrinos, as an alternative to the black hole interpretation. According to the observational data, the lower bounds on possible neutrino masses are m nu >= 12.0 keV/c2 for g=2 or m nu >= 14.3 keV/c2 for g=1, where g is the spin degeneracy factor. The advantage of this scenario is that it could naturally explain the low X-ray and gamma ray activity of Sgr A^*, i.e. the so called "blackness problem" of the galactic center.


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