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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 22.

Left: disk membership probability plotted against position angle from the disk line of nodes (Ω = 96 fdg3) for the 10 simulations with f disk = 0.2. True disk members are shown as red circles ( N = 240), while stars from the isotropic population are marked as black squares ( N = 960). Stars with significant acceleration detections are marked with an "x." For disk stars, the probability of disk membership is a function of the angular offset from the disk's line of nodes. Non-accelerating disk stars with small angular offsets (<20°) show relatively large scatter in disk membership probability. We compute the median and standard deviation of the probability in angular offset bins of 10° for all non-accelerating disk stars. The median and 3σ lower-limit values are shown as the green solid and dashed curves, respectively. Right: same plot, but for the observed sample of N = 116 stars. The 3σ lower-limit curve is overplotted. Points above this curve represent the most likely members of the clockwise disk. The 3 B stars that are likely disk members are indicated with the letter "B."

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