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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 9.

Probability distribution functions for eccentricity (left), inclination (middle), and angle to the ascending node (right) as a function of the line-of-sight distance for the six stars with significant accelerations in the plane of the sky. The absolute value of the line-of-sight distance, | z|, is precisely determined for each of these stars from their measured accelerations. The sign ambiguity of z results in the degenerate set of solutions. The stars S0-15 and S1-14 have solutions consistent with z = 0. The 1σ and 2σ contours of the PDFs are overplotted as solid lines.

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