Estimating the parameters of the Sgr A^* black hole

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-1122-1MaRDI QIDQ538353zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date 25 May 2011

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1545

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensingblack holesgalactic center (Sgr A\(^*\))strong gravitation field relativistic effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Black holes (83C57) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: The measurement of relativistic effects around the galactic center may allow in the near future to strongly constrain the parameters of the supermassive black hole likely present at the galactic center (Sgr A*). As a by-product of these measurements it would be possible to severely constrain, in addition, also the parameters of the mass-density distributions of both the innermost star cluster and the dark matter clump around the galactic center.

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