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Properties of the Remnant Clockwise Disk of Young Stars in the Galactic Center

  • Authors: S. Yelda, A. M. Ghez, J. R. Lu, T. Do, L. Meyer, M. R. Morris, and K. Matthews

Yelda et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal 783 131.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 14.

Density of normal vectors for stars in the three separate radial bins: 0 farcs8–3 farcs2 (top), 3 farcs2–6 farcs5 (middle), and 6 farcs5–13 farcs3 (bottom). The clockwise disk feature at ( i, Ω) = (130°, 96°) is prominent in the inner radial bin and shows a decrease in density with radius. The degenerate orbital solutions associated with the CW disk stars are seen as the slight density enhancement near ( i, Ω) ~ (130°, 300°) in the top panel. The middle radial interval shows hints of the CW disk and extended structure around this location. In the outermost radial bin, a density enhancement is seen at ( i, Ω) = (117°, 192°). The same scaling is used in each plot to show the relative strength of the features. Recall that the horizontal lines represent i and are spaced 30° apart and the longitudinal lines represent Ω and are spaced 45° apart, with the line marked E representing Ω = 0°.

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