Probing the galactic center by gravitational lensing

2000/06/30 by S. Capozziello, G. Iovane, Capozziello, S. +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0006439

4 pages, XXXV Rencontres de Moriond on Cosmological Physics with gravitational lensing, Les Arcs, on March 11-18 2000

arxiv created 2000/06/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The nature of Galactic Center could be probed by lensing experiments capable of testing the spatial and velocity distributions of stars nearby and beyond it. Several hypotheses are possible (e.g. massive neutrino condensation, boson star) which avoid the shortcomings of the supermassive black hole model.

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