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Revealing the Formation of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster via Chemo-dynamical Modeling

  • Authors: Tuan Do, Gregoryvid Da Martinez, Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Manuel Arca Sedda, Nadine Neumayer, and Alessia Gualandris

2020 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 901 L28.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Radial velocity maps of the central ∼1.5 pc radius around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. These maps are constructed from the average of the radial velocity of nearest 15 neighbor stars at each location. Left: the full sample of KMOS stars. Center: stars with higher than solar metallicity. Right: stars with lower than solar metallicity. The stars above and below solar metallicity appear to show distinctively different kinematic features.

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