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VLTI observations of IRS~3: The brightest compact MIR source at the Galactic Centre

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The dust enshrouded star IRS~3 in the central light year of our galaxy was partially resolved in a recent VLTI experiment. The presented observation is the first step in investigating both IRS~3 in particular and the stellar population of the Galactic Centre in general with the VLTI at highest angular resolution. We will outline which scientific issues can be addressed by a complete MIDI dataset on IRS~3 in the mid infrared.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0505189,
  title  = {VLTI observations of IRS~3: The brightest compact MIR source at the Galactic Centre},
  author = {J. -U. Pott and A. Eckart and A. Glindemann and T. Viehmann and R. Schödel and C. Straubmeier and C. Leinert and M. Feldt and R. Genzel and M. Robberto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0505189},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, published in: The ESO Messenger