Testing the gravitational theory with short-period stars around our Galactic Center
Abstract
Motion of short-period stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in our Galactic Center has been monitored for more than 20 years. These observations are currently offering a new way to test the gravitational theory in an unexplored regime: in a strong gravitational field, around a supermassive black hole. In this proceeding, we present three results: (i) a constraint on a hypothetical fifth force obtained by using 19 years of observations of the two best measured short-period stars S0-2 and S0-38 ; (ii) an upper limit on the secular advance of the argument of the periastron for the star S0-2 ; (iii) a sensitivity analysis showing that the relativistic redshift of S0-2 will be measured after its closest approach to the black hole in 2018.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- May 2017
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1705.10792
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1705.10792
- Bibcode:
- 2017arXiv170510792H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of the 52nd Rencontres de Moriond, Gravitation Session