A Nonparametric Estimate of the Mass of the Central Black Hole in the Galaxy
A Nonparametric Estimate of the Mass of the Central Black Hole in the Galaxy
We estimate the mass of the central black hole in our Galaxy from stellar kinematic data published by Ghez et al. and Genzel et al. For this we develop a method, related to that presented by Merritt in 1993, for nonparametrically reconstructing the mass profile and the stellar distribution function …