Kinematic analysis of the Minispiral

Through multi-component line fitting, we have decomposed this HII region into nine overlapping velocity structures, for which we have extracted the line flux and radial velocity maps. We have then fitted a set of Keplerian orbits onto the radial velocity map of the most extended structure (the "Northern Arm"), assuming that it was orbiting the central black hole candidate Sgr A*.

This fit allows us to propose a three-dimensional kinematic model for this structure, which is hereby given as a set of FITS files. In this model, the central mass, its location in the field, and the distance to the Galactic Center are fixed: we use a mass of 3e6 solar masses and a distance of 8kpc; the pixel scale is 0.353 arcsec/pix, Sgr A* is considered to be located at pixel (59.2538, 38.9849) (IDL notation: (0, 0) is the center of the lower-left pixel, add 1 for FITS convention).