Testing solitonic boson star interpretations of Sagittarius A* with near-infrared flare astrometry
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| author | Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Hai-Qing Guo, Minyong Chen, Bin |
| author_facet | Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Hai-Qing Guo, Minyong Chen, Bin |
| contents | We use GRAVITY near-infrared (NIR) flare astrometry to test whether Sagittarius A* could be a solitonic boson star. We consider five spherically symmetric solitonic boson-star models with different effective radii, together with the Schwarzschild black hole. Treating the flares as hot spots on circular equatorial orbits, we analyze their centroid motions and images in these spacetimes and use them for parameter fitting. We perform the fitting using both $χ^2$ analysis and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, which yield consistent results: the inferred masses of boson-star models are systematically larger than the established value of $4.3\times10^6M_\odot$. Notably, more diffusive boson stars exhibit imaging properties closer to those of a black hole, leading to mass estimates that are correspondingly closer to the established value. Overall, our results place stringent constraints on solitonic boson star interpretations of Sagittarius A*, although do not completely rule them out. |
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| spellingShingle | Testing solitonic boson star interpretations of Sagittarius A* with near-infrared flare astrometry Wang, Xiangyu Zhang, Zhenyu Zhang, Hai-Qing Guo, Minyong Chen, Bin High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology We use GRAVITY near-infrared (NIR) flare astrometry to test whether Sagittarius A* could be a solitonic boson star. We consider five spherically symmetric solitonic boson-star models with different effective radii, together with the Schwarzschild black hole. Treating the flares as hot spots on circular equatorial orbits, we analyze their centroid motions and images in these spacetimes and use them for parameter fitting. We perform the fitting using both $χ^2$ analysis and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, which yield consistent results: the inferred masses of boson-star models are systematically larger than the established value of $4.3\times10^6M_\odot$. Notably, more diffusive boson stars exhibit imaging properties closer to those of a black hole, leading to mass estimates that are correspondingly closer to the established value. Overall, our results place stringent constraints on solitonic boson star interpretations of Sagittarius A*, although do not completely rule them out. |
| title | Testing solitonic boson star interpretations of Sagittarius A* with near-infrared flare astrometry |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21883 |