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Constraints on and Alternatives to a Massive Black Hole at the Galactic Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Leonid M. Ozernoy
Leonid M. Ozernoy*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, MA 02138

Abstract

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Considerations are presented which could serve as nourishment for a “devil's advocate” with regard to the concept of a very massive (~ 106 M⊙) black hole at the center of the Galaxy. Constraints on the BH mass given by various processes are summarized. Most attention is paid to a novel probe of the black hole by means of a “wind diagnostic,” i.e. by accounting for interaction of the BH with the wind responsible for the broad line region at the Galactic Center. All available data taken together do not require a very high mass for the BH, but a moderately massive black hole currently seems to present the prime candidacy from several alternatives.

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Considerations of a Massive Black Hole
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 136: The Galactic Center , 1989 , pp. 555 - 566
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Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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