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Detecting Black Hole Occultations by Stars with Space Interferometric Telescopes

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-01-15 v2

Abstract

We show that the occultation of Sagittarius A* by stars can be detected with space-based or space-ground very-long-baseline-interferometers (SVLBIs), with an expected event rate that is high due to relativistic precession. We compute the tell-tale signal of an occultation event, and describe methods to flag non-occultation events that can masquerade as the signal.

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@article{arxiv.2005.03042,
  title  = {Detecting Black Hole Occultations by Stars with Space Interferometric Telescopes},
  author = {Pierre Christian and Abraham Loeb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.03042},
  year   = {2021}
}

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