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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 2.5×1062.5 \times 10^6 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 mν12.0m_\nu \geq 12.0 keV/c2/c^2 for g=2g=2 or mν14.3m_\nu \geq 14.3 keV/c2/c^2 for g=1g=1, where gg 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.

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@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

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