Simulations of the origin and fate of the Galactic Center cloud G2
Marc Schartmann,Andreas Burkert,C. Alig,Stefan Gillessen,Reinhard Genzel,Frank Eisenhauer,Tobias K. Fritz,A. Ballone +7 more
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In this paper, the authors investigate the origin and fate of the recently discovered gas cloud G2 close to the Galactic Center and investigate the dynamical evolution of the cloud in combination with currently available observations.Abstract:
We investigate the origin and fate of the recently discovered gas cloud G2 close to the Galactic Center. Our hydrodynamical simulations focussing on the dynamical evolution of the cloud in combination with currently available observations favour two scenarios: a Compact Cloud which started around the year 1995 and an extended Spherical Shell of gas, with an apocenter distance within the disk(s) of young stars. The former is able to explain the detected signal of G2 in the position-velocity-diagram of the year 2008.5 and 2011.5 data. The latter can account for both, G2's signal as well as the fainter extended tail-like structure G2t seen at larger distances to the black hole and smaller velocities. From these first idealised simulations we expect a rise of the current activity of Sgr A* shortly after the closest approach and a constant feeding through a nozzle-like structure over a long period. The near future evolution of the cloud will be a sensitive probe of the conditions of the gas distribution in the milli-parsec environment of the massive black hole in the Galactic Center and will also give us invaluable information of the feeding of black holes and the activation of the central source.read more
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