the current status of hypervelocity stars galactic center workshop shanghai 2009 oct 21 warren r....
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The Current Status of
Hypervelocity Stars
Galactic Center Workshop
Shanghai2009 Oct 21
Warren R. BrownSmithsonian – CfA
Collaborators:
Margaret Geller, Scott Kenyon
Links to the Black Hole
Ejection Mechanism Observed Properties
Velocity distribution
Spatial distribution
Temporal distribution
Stellar Rotation distribution
Single MBH + binary star (Hills 1988)
Binary MBH + single star(Yu & Tremaine 2003)
Stellar BH + MBH + star(O’Leary & Loeb 2008)
(Sesana et al 2007)
(Levin 2006)
Hansen (2007)Lockmann & Baumgardt (2008)Lopez-Morales & Bonanos (2008)
HVS = Galactic Center origin1. There are unbound stars in halo.
2. MBH in the GC.
3. Stars orbit the MBH.
4. HVSs are B stars.
5. GC full of B stars.
6. Travel times < lifetimes.
7. Nobs = Npredicted.
Heber et al (2008)
but . . .
Runaway B Stars
HVSs
Binary disruption:1. Supernova2. Dynamical
Runaways
Bromley, Kenyon, Brown & Geller (2009)