• DOI:10.1093/mnras/sty2139
Corpus ID: 119252027

Weighing the IMBH candidate CO-0.40-0.22* in the Galactic Centre

@article{Ballone2018WeighingTI,
  title={Weighing the IMBH candidate CO-0.40-0.22* in the Galactic Centre},
  author={A. Ballone and M. Mapelli and M. Pasquato},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2018},
  volume={480},
  pages={4684-4692}
}

A. Ballone, M. Mapelli, M. Pasquato

Published 2018

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The high velocity gradient observed in the compact cloud CO-0.40-0.22, at a projected distance of 60 pc from the centre of the Milky Way, has led its discoverers to identify the closeby mm continuum emitter, CO-0.40-0.22*, with an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) candidate. We describe the interaction between CO-0.40-0.22 and the IMBH, by means of a simple analytical model and of hydrodynamical simulations. Through such calculation, we obtain a lower limit to the mass of CO-0.40-0.22* of few… CONTINUE READING

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