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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

Caption: Figure 5.

The rotation curves of the two best-fit populations in our model. The higher-metallicity population (blue) follows the same rotation curve as has been previously observed (black points), but the lower-metallicity population (orange) has a distinctively different rotation curve. It has stronger rotation and may be offset. This suggests that this low-metallicity population may be part of a recent infall of a cluster or dwarf galaxy into the Galactic center.

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