Figure 3

Figure 3: A crude illustration of the parameter space for a SBH-IBH binary at the Galactic center. Assuming a circular orbit around a SBH of 6 3× 10 Mo ., a IBH with mass MIBH and semi-major axis a can be ruled out by measurement of an astrometric wobble of the radio image of Sgr A*. The shaded regions show the detection thresholds for astrometric resolutions of 0.01, 0.1 and 1 milliarcseconds, respectively, assuming a monitoring period of 10 years. The dashed lines indicate coalescence due to gravitational radiation in 6 10 and 7 10 years, respectively (From [84], see also [229]).