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Astrophysical constraints on a possible neutrino ball at the Galactic Center

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v1

Abstract

The nature of the massive object at the Galactic Center (Sgr A^{*}) is still unclear even if various observational campaigns led many authors to believe that our Galaxy hosts a super-massive black hole with mass M2.6×106M\simeq 2.6\times 10^6 M_{\odot}. However, the black hole hypothesis, which theoretically implies a luminosity 1041\simeq 10^{41} erg s1^{-1}, runs into problems if one takes into account that the observed luminosity, from radio to γ\gamma-ray wavelengths, is below 103710^{37} erg s1^{-1}. In order to solve this blackness problem, alternative models have been recently proposed. In particular, it has been suggested that the Galactic Center hosts a ball made up by non-baryonic matter (e.g. massive neutrinos and anti-neutrinos) in which the degeneracy pressure of fermions balances their self-gravity. Requiring to be consistent with all the available observations towards the Galactic Center allows us to put severe astrophysical constraints on the neutrino ball parameters. The presence of such an object in the Galactic Center may be excluded if the constituent neutrino mass mνm_{\nu} is \ut>24\ut> 24 keV, while if mν\ut<24m_{\nu}\ut< 24 keV observations can not give a definite answer.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0107497,
  title  = {Astrophysical constraints on a possible neutrino ball at the Galactic Center},
  author = {F. De Paolis and G. Ingrosso and A. A. Nucita and D. Orlando and S. Capozziello and G. Iovane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0107497},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures, in press on Astronomy and Astrophysics