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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 6.

Position (top), proper motion (middle), and radial acceleration (bottom) uncertainties as a function of K magnitude (left) and number of epochs (right) for our sample of young stars beyond a projected radius of 0 farcs8 and in the central 10'' AO data set. Note that the acceleration uncertainties are shown in μas yr −2. The astrometric uncertainties are estimated from either the proper motion or acceleration fit to each star's individual positions over time. Stars with acceleration detections and acceleration constraints are shown as open red circles and open green squares, respectively. The figures show that our astrometric uncertainties have only a slight dependence on stellar magnitudes and a strong dependence on the number of epochs a star was detected in.

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