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={Alessandro Ballone and Michela Mapelli and Mario Pasquato},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2018}
}
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… Expand
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