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Frame Dragging and the Kinematics of Galactic-Center Stars

  • Authors: Rahul Kannan and Prasenjit Saha

KANNAN & SAHA 2009 The Astrophysical Journal 690 1553.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Comparison between the Schwarzschild (dashed curves) and frame-dragging (solid curves) contributions to the three velocity components v r , v θ, and v ϕ. The time starts from the apocenter. For this orbit a = 3 × 10 4, e = 0.90, and I = 0.5.

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