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Author Correction: Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri

van de Ven, Glenn
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Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07511-z Published online 10 July 2024

In the version of the article initially published, the third equation in the “The escape velocity provides a minimum black hole mass” section was presented incorrectly; the original and revised equations are shown below. The error was in description, only, and does not impact the results. Also, an error in conversion of coordinates from relative to absolute coordinates led to a small offset in the reported right ascension coordinate for the minimum mass black hole location and the MCMC center. In the Methods sentence now reading “If we assume that all five robustly detected stars are bound to the black hole, the lower limit is about 8,200 M ☉ and the minimum mass location is only 0.3″ away from the AvdM10 (ref. 6) centre at the location RA = 201.6966908° and Dec = −47.4795066°,” the coordinate “201.6966908°” replaces “201.6967370°,” while in the Methods text now reading “The coordinates of the MCMC based centre estimate are RA = 201.6970988° and Dec = −47.4794533°,” the coordinate “201.6970988°” replaces “201.6970128°.” The equation and text are updated in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

Original equation

$${M}_{\text{BH}} > \sqrt{{\left(\frac{{v}_{3\text{D}}^{2}{r}_{3\text{D}}}{2G}\right)}^{2}-{v}_{\text{esc., cluster}}^{2}}\ge \sqrt{{\left(\frac{{v}_{2\text{D}}^{2}{r}_{2\text{D}}}{2G}\right)}^{2}-{v}_{\text{esc., cluster}}^{2}}$$

(1)

Revised equation

$${M}_{\text{BH}} > \frac{\left({v}_{3\text{D}}^{2}-{v}_{\text{esc., cluster}}^{2}\right){r}_{3\text{D}}}{2G}\ge \frac{\left({v}_{2\text{D}}^{2}-{v}_{\text{esc., cluster}}^{2}\right){r}_{2\text{D}}}{2G}$$

(2)

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany

    Maximilian Häberle, Nadine Neumayer, Antoine Dumont, Callie Clontz, Anja Feldmeier-Krause & Maria Selina Nitschai

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Anil Seth, Matthew Whitaker & Callie Clontz

  3. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Andrea Bellini & Jay Anderson

  4. AURA for the European Space Agency (ESA), Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mattia Libralato

  5. INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padova, Italy

    Mattia Libralato

  6. School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Holger Baumgardt

  7. Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Universidad Central de Chile, La Serena, Chile

    Mayte Alfaro-Cuello

  8. Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Potsdam, Germany

    Nikolay Kacharov

  9. Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Sebastian Kamann & Renuka Pechetti

  10. Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

    Anja Feldmeier-Krause & Glenn van de Ven

  11. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia ‘Galileo Galilei’, Università Degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy

    Antonino Milone

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Häberle, M., Neumayer, N., Seth, A. et al. Author Correction: Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08017-4

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