A 149 minute periodicity underlies the X-ray flaring of Sgr A*
arXiv:1711.04687 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2939
Abstract
In a recent paper (Leibowitz 2017) I have shown that the 39 large X-ray flares of Sgr A* that were recorded by Chandra observatory in the year 2012, are concentrated preferably around tick marks of an equi-distance grid on the time axis. The period of this grid as found in L1 is 0.1033 days. In this work I show that the effect can be found among all the large X-ray flares recoded by Chandra and XMM-Newton along 15 years. The midpoints of all the 71 large flares recorded between the years 2000 and 2014 are also tightly grouped around tick marks of a grid with this period, or more likely, 0.1032 day. This result is obtained with a confidence level of at least 3.27σ and very likely of 4.62σ. I find also a possible hint that a similar grid is underlying IR flares of the object. I suggest that the pacemaker in the occurrences of the large X-ray flares of Sgr A* is a mass of the order of a low mass star or a small planet, in a slightly eccentric Keplerian orbit around the SMBH at the centre of the Galaxy. The radius of this orbit is about 6.6 Schwarzschild radii of the BH.
MNRAS, accepted. Sequel to arXiv:1607.02519
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