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most citedFirst Light for GRAVITY: Phase Referencing Optical Interferometry for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

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astro-ph.GA2026

Searching for Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Binaries with GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, K. Abd El Dayem, N. Aimar +82

We present a systematic interferometric search for close supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in 20 nearby type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed with VLTI/\grav. We inves…

astro-ph.GA2026

Improving constraints on the Yukawa correction at the Galactic Center with multiple stellar orbits

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, :, A. Foschi +78

We investigate the presence of a Yukawa-like correction () to Newtonian gravity at the Galactic Center, using a multi-star fitting code, including the newly…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Discovery of a star sensitive to the spin of Sgr A*

K. Abd El Dayem, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +85

Residing in the center of the Milky Way, Sgr A* is the closest massive black hole (MBH). Its vicinity has allowed measuring individual stellar orbits around it. The stars act as te…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 11 cited

Spatially resolved broad line region in a quasar at z=4: Dynamical black hole mass and prominent outflow

GRAVITY+ Collaboration, K. Abd El Dayem, N. Aimar +92

We present the first near-infrared interferometric data of a QSO at z=4. The K-band observations were performed with GRAVITY+ on the VLTI using all four UTs, detecting a differenti…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

The effects of the spin and quadrupole moment of SgrA* on the orbits of S stars

K. Abd El Dayem, F. H. Vincent, G. Heissel +2

Measuring the astrometric and spectroscopic data of stars orbiting the central black hole in our galaxy (Sgr A*) offers a promising way to measure relativistic effects. In principl…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

Exploring the presence of a fifth force at the Galactic Center

The GRAVITY Collaboration, K. Abd El Dayem, R. Abuter +60

Aims: The presence of a Yukawa-like correction to Newtonian gravity is investigated at the Galactic Center, leading to a new upper limit for the intensity of such a correction. Met…

astro-ph.GA2023

Using the motion of S2 to constrain vector clouds around SgrA*

GRAVITY Collaboration, A. Foschi, R. Abuter +53

The dark compact object at the centre of the Milky Way is well established to be a supermassive black hole with mass , but the nature…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 93 cited

Polarimetry and Astrometry of NIR Flares as Event Horizon Scale, Dynamical Probes for the Mass of Sgr A*

The GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +66

We present new astrometric and polarimetric observations of flares from Sgr A* obtained with GRAVITY, the near-infrared interferometer at ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 37 cited

Using the motion of S2 to constrain scalar clouds around SgrA*

GRAVITY Collaboration, A. Foschi, R. Abuter +67

The motion of S2, one of the stars closest to the Galactic Centre, has been measured accurately and used to study the compact object at the centre of the Milky Way. It is commonly…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 34 cited

Where intermediate-mass black holes could hide in the Galactic Centre: A full parameter study with the S2 orbit

The GRAVITY Collaboration, O. Straub, M. Bauböck +59

In the Milky Way the central massive black hole, SgrA*, coexists with a compact nuclear star cluster that contains a sub-parsec concentration of fast-moving young stars called S-st…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 287 cited

The mass distribution in the Galactic Centre from interferometric astrometry of multiple stellar orbits

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +62

The stars orbiting the compact radio source Sgr A* in the Galactic Centre are precision probes of the gravitational field around the closest massive black hole. In addition to adap…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

Deep Images of the Galactic Center with GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +65

Stellar orbits at the Galactic Center provide a very clean probe of the gravitational potential of the supermassive black hole. They can be studied with unique precision, beyond th…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 115 cited

An image of the dust sublimation region in the nucleus of NGC 1068

GRAVITY Collaboration, O. Pfuhl, R. Davies +40

We present near-infrared interferometric data on the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope Inter…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 72 cited

Scalar field effects on the orbit of S2 star

António Amorim, Michael Bauböck, Myriam Benisty +35

Precise measurements of the S-stars orbiting SgrA* have set strong constraints on the nature of the compact object at the centre of the Milky Way. The presence of a black hole in t…