A high-velocity star recently ejected by an intermediate-mass black hole in M15.

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Tác giả: Xiaobo Dong, Cuihua Du, Yang Huang, Qingzheng Li, Jifeng Liu, Youjun Lu, Huawei Zhang

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 534.202 Velocity

Thông tin xuất bản: China : National science review , 2025

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Bộ sưu tập: NCBI

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The existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is crucial for understanding various astrophysical phenomena, yet their existence remains elusive, except for the LIGO-Virgo detection. We report the discovery of a high-velocity star J0731+3717, whose backward trajectory about 21 Myr ago intersected that of globular cluster M15 within the cluster tidal radius. Both its metallicity [Fe/H] and alpha-to-iron abundance ratio [[Formula: see text]/Fe] are consistent with those of M15. Furthermore, its location falls right on the fiducial sequence of cluster M15 on the color-absolute magnitude diagram, suggesting similar ages. These findings support the notion that J0731+3717 was originally associated with M15 at a confidence level of 'seven nines'. We find that such a high-velocity star ([Formula: see text] km s[Formula: see text]) was most likely tidally ejected from as close as one astronomical unit to the center of M15, confirming an IMBH ([Formula: see text] with a credibility of 98%) as the exclusive nature of the central unseen mass proposed previously.
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