The Galactic Center as a laboratory for theories of gravity and dark matter

M De Laurentis, I De Martino… - Reports on Progress in …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Galactic Center (GC) of the Milky Way, thanks to its proximity, allows to perform
astronomical observations that investigate physical phenomena at the edge of astrophysics …

Testing General Relativity with stellar orbits around the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center

A Hees, T Do, AM Ghez, GD Martinez, S Naoz… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We demonstrate that short-period stars orbiting around the supermassive black hole in our
Galactic center can successfully be used to probe the gravitational theory in a strong regime …

[HTML][HTML] Strengthening extended gravity constraints with combined systems: f (R) bounds from cosmology and the galactic center

D Benisty, J Mifsud, JL Said, D Staicova - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2023 - Elsevier
Extended gravity is widely constrained in different astrophysical and astronomical systems.
Since these different systems are based on different scales it is not trivial to get a combined …

Constraints on a charge in the Reissner-Nordström metric for the black hole at the Galactic Center

AF Zakharov - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
Using an algebraic condition of vanishing discriminant for multiple roots of fourth-degree
polynomials, we derive an analytical expression of a shadow size as a function of a charge …

Timelike geodesics in naked singularity and black hole spacetimes

P Bambhaniya, AB Joshi, D Dey, PS Joshi - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
In this paper, we derive the solutions of orbit equations for a class of naked singularity
spacetimes and compare these with timelike orbits, that is, particle trajectories in the …

Dark energy interactions near the Galactic Center

D Benisty, AC Davis - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We investigate scalar-tensor theories, motivated by dark energy models, in the strong gravity
regime around the black hole at the center of our galaxy. In such theories general relativity is …

Constraining the range of Yukawa gravity interaction from S2 star orbits

D Borka, P Jovanović, VB Jovanović… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider possible signatures for Yukawa gravity within the Galactic Central Parsec,
based on our analysis of the S2 star orbital precession around the massive compact dark …

Scalar field effects on the orbit of S2 star

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Analysis of the Yukawa gravitational potential in gravity. II. Relativistic periastron advance

M De Laurentis, I De Martino, R Lazkoz - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Alternative theories of gravity may serve to overcome several shortcomings of the standard
cosmological model but, in their weak field limit, general relativity must be recovered so as to …

Estimating the parameters of extended gravity theories with the Schwarzschild precession of S2 star

D Borka, V Borka Jovanović, S Capozziello… - Universe, 2021 - mdpi.com
After giving a short overview of previous results on constraining of Extended Gravity by
stellar orbits, we discuss the Schwarzschild orbital precession of S2 star assuming the …