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Detection of polarized continuum emission of the Dusty S-cluster Object

2016-09-07
Banafsheh Shahzamanian, Michal Zajacek, Monica Valencia-S., Florian Peissker, Andreas Eckart, Nadeen Sabha, Marzieh Parsa

Abstract

A peculiar source in the Galactic center known as the Dusty S-cluster Object (DSO/G2) moves on a highly eccentric orbit around the supermassive black hole with the pericenter passage in the spring of 2014. Its nature has been uncertain mainly because of the lack of any information about its intrinsic geometry. For the first time, we use near-infrared polarimetric imaging data to obtain constraints about the geometrical properties of the DSO. We find out that DSO is an intrinsically polarized source, based on the significance analysis of polarization parameters, with the degree of the polarization of $\sim 30\%$ and an alternating polarization angle as it approaches the position of Sgr A*. Since the DSO exhibits a near-infrared excess of $K_{\rm s}-L’>3$ and remains rather compact in emission-line maps, its main characteristics may be explained with the model of a pre-main-sequence star embedded in a non-spherical dusty envelope.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02039

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.02039


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