Constraining the number of compact remnants near Sgr A*

Details Constraining the number of compact remnants near Sgr A* Constraining the number of compact remnants near Sgr A*

2006-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611524v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.377:897-904,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 Postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11659.x

Due to dynamical friction stellar mass black holes and neutron stars are expected to form high density cusps in the inner parsec of our Galaxy. These compact remnants, expected to number around 20000, may be accreting cold dense gas present there, and give rise to potentially observable X-ray emission. Here we build a simple but detailed time-dependent model of such emission. We find that at least several X-ray sources of this nature should be detectable with Chandra at any one time. Turning this issue around, we also ask a question of what current observational constraints might be telling us about the total number of compact remnants. A cusp with ~ 40 thousand black holes over-predicts the number of discrete sources and the total X-ray luminosity of the inner parsec, and is hence ruled out. Future observations of the distribution and orbits of the cold ionised gas in the inner parsec of Sgr A* will put tighter constraints on the cusp of compact remnants.

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