• DOI:10.1086/592738
Corpus ID: 18335611

MEASURING DISTANCE AND PROPERTIES OF THE MILKY WAY'S CENTRAL SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE WITH STELLAR ORBITS

@article{Ghez2008MEASURINGDA,
  title={MEASURING DISTANCE AND PROPERTIES OF THE MILKY WAY'S CENTRAL SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE WITH STELLAR ORBITS},
  author={A. Ghez and S. Salim and N. Weinberg and J. Lu and T. Do and J. K. Dunn and K. Matthews and M. Morris and S. Yelda and E. Becklin and T. Kremenek and M. Milosavljevi{\'c} and J. Naiman},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2008},
  volume={689},
  pages={1044-1062}
}

A. Ghez, S. Salim, +10 authors J. Naiman

Published 2008

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

We report new precision measurements of the properties of our Galaxy's supermassive black hole. Based on astrometric (1995-2007) and radial velocity (RV; 2000-2007) measurements from the W. M. Keck 10m telescopes, a fully unconstrained Keplerian orbit for the short-period star S0-2 provides values for the distance (R_0) of 8.0±0.6 kpc, the enclosed mass (M_(bh)) of 4.1±0.6x10^6 M☉ and the black hole's RV, which is consistent with zero with 30 km/s uncertainty. If the black hole is assumed to be… CONTINUE READING

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