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author GRAVITY Collaboration
Foschi, A.
Abuter, R.
Dayem, K. Abd El
Aimar, N.
Seoane, P. Amaro
Amorim, A.
Berger, J. P.
Bonnet, H.
Bourdarot, G.
Brandner, W.
Davies, R.
de Zeeuw, P. T.
Defrère, D.
Dexter, J.
Drescher, A.
Eckart, A.
Eisenhauer, F.
Schreiber, N. M. Förster
Garcia, P. J. V.
Genzel, R.
Gillessen, S.
Gomes, T.
Haubois, X.
Heißel, G.
Henning, Th.
Jochum, L.
Jocou, L.
Kaufer, A.
Kreidberg, L.
Lacour, S.
Lapeyrère, V.
Bouquin, J. -B. Le
Léna, P.
Lutz, D.
Mang, F.
Millour, F.
Ott, T.
Paumard, T.
Perraut, K.
Perrin, G.
Pfuhl, O.
Rabien, S.
Ribeiro, D. C.
Bordoni, M. Sadun
Scheithauer, S.
Shangguan, J.
Shimizu, T.
Stadler, J.
Straubmeier, C.
Sturm, E.
Subroweit, M.
Tacconi, L. J.
Vincent, F.
von Fellenberg, S.
Woillez, J.
author_facet GRAVITY Collaboration
Foschi, A.
Abuter, R.
Dayem, K. Abd El
Aimar, N.
Seoane, P. Amaro
Amorim, A.
Berger, J. P.
Bonnet, H.
Bourdarot, G.
Brandner, W.
Davies, R.
de Zeeuw, P. T.
Defrère, D.
Dexter, J.
Drescher, A.
Eckart, A.
Eisenhauer, F.
Schreiber, N. M. Förster
Garcia, P. J. V.
Genzel, R.
Gillessen, S.
Gomes, T.
Haubois, X.
Heißel, G.
Henning, Th.
Jochum, L.
Jocou, L.
Kaufer, A.
Kreidberg, L.
Lacour, S.
Lapeyrère, V.
Bouquin, J. -B. Le
Léna, P.
Lutz, D.
Mang, F.
Millour, F.
Ott, T.
Paumard, T.
Perraut, K.
Perrin, G.
Pfuhl, O.
Rabien, S.
Ribeiro, D. C.
Bordoni, M. Sadun
Scheithauer, S.
Shangguan, J.
Shimizu, T.
Stadler, J.
Straubmeier, C.
Sturm, E.
Subroweit, M.
Tacconi, L. J.
Vincent, F.
von Fellenberg, S.
Woillez, J.
contents The dark compact object at the centre of the Milky Way is well established to be a supermassive black hole with mass $M_{\bullet} \sim 4.3 \cdot 10^6 \, M_{\odot}$, but the nature of its environment is still under debate. In this work, we used astrometric and spectroscopic measurements of the motion of the star S2, one of the closest stars to the massive black hole, to determine an upper limit on an extended mass composed of a massive vector field around Sagittarius A*. For a vector with effective mass $10^{-19} \, \rm eV \lesssim m_s \lesssim 10^{-18} \, \rm eV$, our Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis shows no evidence for such a cloud, placing an upper bound $M_{\rm cloud} \lesssim 0.1\% M_{\bullet}$ at $3σ$ confidence level. We show that dynamical friction exerted by the medium on S2 motion plays no role in the analysis performed in this and previous works, and can be neglected thus.
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spellingShingle Using the motion of S2 to constrain vector clouds around SgrA*
GRAVITY Collaboration
Foschi, A.
Abuter, R.
Dayem, K. Abd El
Aimar, N.
Seoane, P. Amaro
Amorim, A.
Berger, J. P.
Bonnet, H.
Bourdarot, G.
Brandner, W.
Davies, R.
de Zeeuw, P. T.
Defrère, D.
Dexter, J.
Drescher, A.
Eckart, A.
Eisenhauer, F.
Schreiber, N. M. Förster
Garcia, P. J. V.
Genzel, R.
Gillessen, S.
Gomes, T.
Haubois, X.
Heißel, G.
Henning, Th.
Jochum, L.
Jocou, L.
Kaufer, A.
Kreidberg, L.
Lacour, S.
Lapeyrère, V.
Bouquin, J. -B. Le
Léna, P.
Lutz, D.
Mang, F.
Millour, F.
Ott, T.
Paumard, T.
Perraut, K.
Perrin, G.
Pfuhl, O.
Rabien, S.
Ribeiro, D. C.
Bordoni, M. Sadun
Scheithauer, S.
Shangguan, J.
Shimizu, T.
Stadler, J.
Straubmeier, C.
Sturm, E.
Subroweit, M.
Tacconi, L. J.
Vincent, F.
von Fellenberg, S.
Woillez, J.
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
The dark compact object at the centre of the Milky Way is well established to be a supermassive black hole with mass $M_{\bullet} \sim 4.3 \cdot 10^6 \, M_{\odot}$, but the nature of its environment is still under debate. In this work, we used astrometric and spectroscopic measurements of the motion of the star S2, one of the closest stars to the massive black hole, to determine an upper limit on an extended mass composed of a massive vector field around Sagittarius A*. For a vector with effective mass $10^{-19} \, \rm eV \lesssim m_s \lesssim 10^{-18} \, \rm eV$, our Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis shows no evidence for such a cloud, placing an upper bound $M_{\rm cloud} \lesssim 0.1\% M_{\bullet}$ at $3σ$ confidence level. We show that dynamical friction exerted by the medium on S2 motion plays no role in the analysis performed in this and previous works, and can be neglected thus.
title Using the motion of S2 to constrain vector clouds around SgrA*
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02653