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Fig. 4.

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Posterior analysis of all data by fitting for f simultaneously with all other parameters. We plot the residuals in spectroscopy (top, NIRC2, NACO, and SINFONI), Dec and RA (middle two panels, filled grey: NACO; open grey: SHARP; green filled blue: GRAVITY) between the best f = 1 fit and the f = 0 (Newtonian) part of that fit for the model (red line) and all data. The black curve includes the Schwarzschild precession. Here, we down-sampled the NACO data into 100 equal bins along the orbit to obtain a constant weighting in spatial coverage. With a weight of 0.5 for the NACO data (in order to account for the systematic errors), this yields a 10 σ result in favour of GR (f = 0.90 ± 0.09), and . The bottom panel shows the posterior probability distributions for f and its correlation with the mass M and distance R0 of the massive black hole, and the argument of periapsis ω. The distributions are compact and all parameters are well determined.

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