English

The G2+G2t complex as a fast and massive outflow?

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-03-23 v1

Abstract

Observations of the gas component of the cloud G2 in the Galactic Center have revealed its connection to a tail (G2t) lying on the same orbit. More recent studies indicate a connection between G2 and G1, another cloud detected on the blueshifted side of G2's orbit, suggesting a scenario in which G2 is a denser clump in a stream of gas. In this Letter we show that a simulation of an outflow by a central source (possibly a T Tauri star) moving on G2's orbit and interacting with a hot atmosphere surrounding SgrA* can have G2 and G2t as a byproduct. G2 would be the bow-shock formed in the head of the source, while G2t might be the result of the stripping of the rest of the shocked material by the ram pressure of the surrounding hot gas and of its successive accumulation in the trailing region. Mock position-velocity diagrams for the Brγ\gamma emission for this simulation can indeed reproduce the correct position and velocity of G2t, as well as the more tenuous material in between. Though some tension between the observations and the simulated model remains, we argue that this might be due to issues in the construction of observed position-velocity (PV) diagrams and/or to a poor treatment of some physical processes - like hydrodynamic mixing - in our simulation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.07305,
  title  = {The G2+G2t complex as a fast and massive outflow?},
  author = {A. Ballone and M. Schartmann and A. Burkert and S. Gillessen and P. M. Plewa and R. Genzel and O. Pfuhl and F. Eisenhauer and T. Ott and E. M. George and M. Habibi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07305},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJL

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