Published August 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Constraints on tidal charge of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center with trajectories of bright stars

  • 1. North Carolina Central Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
  • 2. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)
  • 3. National Research Nuclear Univ. MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 4. Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 5. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). National Astronomical Observatories

Description

As it was pointed out recently in Hees et al. (Phys Rev Lett 118:211101, 2017), observations of stars near the Galactic Center with current and future facilities provide an unique tool to test general relativity (GR) and alternative theories of gravity in a strong gravitational field regime. In particular, the authors showed that the Yukawa gravity could be constrained with Keck and TMT observations. Some time ago, Dadhich et al. (Phys Lett B 487:1, 2001) showed that the Reissner-Nordstroem metric with a tidal charge is naturally appeared in the framework of Randall-Sundrum model with an extra dimension (Q2 is called tidal charge and it could be negative in such an approach). Astrophysical consequences of presence of black holes with a tidal charge are considered, in particular, geodesics and shadows in Kerr-Newman braneworld metric are analyzed in Schee and Stuchlik (Intern J Mod Phys D 18:983, 2009), while profiles of emission lines generated by rings orbiting braneworld Kerr black hole are considered in Schee and Stuchlik (Gen Relat Grav 52:1795, 2009). Possible observational signatures of gravitational lensing in a presence of the Reissner-Nordstroem black hole with a tidal charge at the Galactic Center are discussed in papers (Bin-Nun in Phys Rev D 81:123011, 2010; Bin-Nun in Phys Rev D 82:064009, 2010; Bin-Nun in Class Quant Grav 28:114003, 2011). Here we are following such an approach and we obtain analytical expressions for orbital precession for Reissner-Nordstroem-de-Sitter solution in post-Newtonian approximation and discuss opportunities to constrain parameters of the metric from observations of bright stars with current and future astrometric observational facilities such as VLT, Keck, GRAVITY, E-ELT and TMT. (orig.)

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Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6166-5

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Journal Title
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields (Online)
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
p. 1-7
ISSN
1434-6052