Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-15
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.363:223-228,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 7 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09433.x
Hills (1988) predicted that runaway stars could be accelerated to velocities larger than 1000 km/s by dynamical encounters with the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the Galactic center. The recently discovered hypervelocity star SDSS J090745.0+024507 (hereafter HVS) is escaping the Galaxy at high speed and could be the first object in this class. With the measured radial velocity and the estimated distance to the HVS, we trace back its trajectory in the Galactic potential. Assuming it was ejected from the center, we find that a $\sim$ 2 mas/yr proper motion is necessary for the star to have come within a few parsecs of the SMBH. We perform three-body scattering experiments to constrain the progenitor encounter which accelerated the HVS. As proposed by Yu & Tremaine (2003), we consider the tidal disruption of binary systems by the SMBH and the encounter between a star and a binary black hole, as well as an alternative scenario involving intermediate mass black holes. We find that the tidal disruption of a stellar binary ejects stars with a larger velocity compared to the encounter between a single star and a binary black hole, but has a somewhat smaller ejection rate due to the greater availability of single stars.
Gualandris Alessia
Portegies Zwart Simon
Sipior Michael
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