Dark matter concentration in the galactic center
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v2
Abstract
It is shown that the matter concentration observed through stellar motion at the galactic center (Eckart & Genzel, 1997, MNRAS, 284, 576 and Genzel et al., 1996, ApJ, 472, 153) is consistent with a supermassive object of solar masses composed of self-gravitating, degenerate heavy neutrinos, as an alternative to the black hole interpretation. According to the observational data, the lower bounds on possible neutrino masses are keV for or keV for , where is the spin degeneracy factor. The advantage of this scenario is that it could naturally explain the low X-ray and gamma ray activity of Sgr A, i.e. the so called "blackness problem" of the galactic center.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9805273,
title = {Dark matter concentration in the galactic center},
author = {David Tsiklauri and Raoul D. Viollier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9805273},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
ApJ, 500, 591 (1998), AASTEX, aasms4.sty, v2 reference added