The Hypervelocity Star SDSS J090745.0+024507 is a Short-Period Variable

Details The Hypervelocity Star SDSS J090745.0+024507 is a Short-Period Variable The Hypervelocity Star SDSS J090745.0+024507 is a Short-Period Variable

2005-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507520v1

Astrophys.J.636:L37-L40,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJL, submitted, 4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/499233

We present high-precision photometry of the hypervelocity star SDSS J090745.0+024507 (HVS), which has a Galactic rest-frame radial velocity of v=709 km/s, and so has likely been ejected from the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center. Our data were obtained on two nights using the MMT 6.5m telescope, and is supplemented by lower precision photometry obtained on four nights using the FLWO 1.2m telescope. The high-precision photometry indicates that the HVS is a short-period, low-amplitude variable, with period P=0.2-2 days and amplitude A = 2-10%. Together with the known effective temperature of T_eff ~ 10,500 K (spectral type B9), this variability implies that the HVS is a member of the class of slowly pulsating B-type main sequence stars, thus resolving the previously-reported two-fold degeneracy in the luminosity and distance of the star. The HVS has a heliocentric distance of 71 kpc, and an age of ~0.35 Gyr. The time of ejection from the center of the Galaxy is < 100 Myr, and thus the existence of the OS constitutes observational evidence of a population of young stars in the proximity of the central supermassive black hole ~0.1 Gyr ago. It is possible that the HVS was a member of a binary that was tidally disrupted by the central black hole; we discuss constraints on the properties of the companion's orbit.

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