Ejection of hypervelocity binary stars by a black hole of intermediate mass orbiting Sgr A*

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2008-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/0810.3848v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS letters

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00578.x

The discovery of hypervelocity binary stars (HVBs) in the Galactic halo would provide definite evidence of the existence of a massive black hole companion to Sgr A*. Here we use an hybrid approach to compute the rate of ejection and the total number of HVBs produced by a hypothetical intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH, M_2<10^5\msun) orbiting Sgr A*. Depending on the mass of M_2 and on the properties of binary stars in the central parsec of the Milky Way, we show that the number of undisrupted HVBs expected to be expelled from the Galactic Center before binary black hole coalescence ranges from zero to a few dozens at most. Therefore, the non-detection of stellar binaries in a complete survey of hypervelocity stars would not rule out the occurrence of an IMBH-Sgr A* in-spiralling event within the last few 10^8 years.

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