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On the Origin of a Rotating Metal-poor Stellar Population in the Milky Way Nuclear Cluster

Authors: Manuel Arca Sedda, Alessia Gualandris, Tuan Do, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Nadine Neumayer, and Denis Erkal

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 901 L29.

Provider: AAS Journals

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Isodensity maps of the innermost 4 pc region in the Galactic center, showing the NC overdensity and the infalling SC at different times. The SC rapid destruction can be seen over the panels, with the cluster apparent size reducing by half over a timescale of only <0.5 Myr.

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