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May 1998
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American Astronomical Society, 192nd AAS Meeting, #79.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.933
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The dynamical modelling of stellar velocities and proper motions in the Galactic center indicates an extended, nearly isothermal cluster of normal stars with a core radius of ~ 0.5 pc as well as some dark matter, or DM (e.g. [(1right ]) ). I assume the DM in the innermost central region of the Galaxy consists of two major components: (i) an extended, although a highly concentrated, cluster of compact stellar remnants (CSRs), such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and stellar black holes (*BHs), plus (ii) a point central mass, a massive black hole (MBH). The MBH could have formed either before the Galaxy formation (Scenario 1) or as a result ot the dynamical evolution of the stellar nucleus (Scenario 2). In Scenario 2, I explore whether the central part of the multi-mass system of CSRs, which supposedly consists mainly of *BHs, is in the state of a bounced core collapse. The bounce could occur as a result of heating produced by *BH binaries formed by three-body process [(2right ]) . Then the DM cluster experiences a slow expansion accompanied by core oscillations. The central point mass -- a MBH -- could have formed during those oscillations. Its current mass is a sizeable fraction of that associated with the CSR cluster. The inferred density of stars wihin the central ~ 0.01 pc of the Galaxy is consistent with what would be expected if the core were in the post-bounced state of gravo-thermal oscillations. If further, higher resolution data on velocity dispersion v confirm an increase v~ r(-1/2) toward smaller r, it would imply that the heating by *BH binaries was inefficient. This would imply a much larger ratio of MBH mass to that in CSRs and would be evidence in favor of Scenario 1, i.e. the primordial origin of the central MBH.
References:
(1) Eckart, A. & Genzel, R. 1997, MNRAS 284, 576
(2) Lee, H.M. 1995, MNRAS 272, 605
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