Detecting Black Hole Occultations by Stars with Space Interferometric Telescopes

preprint2021arXivOpen access

Abstract

We show that the occultation of Sagittarius A* by stars can be detected with space-based or space-ground very-long-baseline-interferometers (SVLBIs), with an expected event rate that is high due to relativistic precession. We compute the tell-tale signal of an occultation event, and describe methods to flag non-occultation events that can masquerade as the signal.

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