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The center of our galaxy is home to a massive black hole, SgrA*, and a nuclear star cluster containing stellar populations of various ages. While the late type stars may be too old to have retained memory of their initial orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ann-Marie Madigan , Oliver Pfuhl , Yuri Levin , Stefan Gillessen , Reinhard Genzel , Hagai B. Perets

Observations in the near-infrared domain showed the presence of the flat core of bright late-type stars inside $\sim 0.5\,{\rm pc}$ from the Galactic center supermassive black hole (Sgr A*), while young massive OB/Wolf-Rayet stars form a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Michal Zajaček , Anabella Araudo , Vladimír Karas , Bożena Czerny , Andreas Eckart

The Galactic centre stands out as the most prolific star-forming environment of the Galaxy when averaged over volume. In the last 30 million years, it has witnessed the formation of $\sim10^6 M_\odot$ of stars. However, crowding and high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Francisco Nogueras-Lara

The Galactic Center hosts a rotating disk of young stars between 0.05 and 0.5 pc of Sgr A*. The ``S-stars'' at a distance $<0.04$ pc, however, are on eccentric orbits with nearly isotropically distributed inclinations. The dynamical origin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Tatsuya Akiba , Smadar Naoz , Ann-Marie Madigan

Many young stars reside within the central half-parsec from SgrA*, the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Center. The origin of these stars remains a puzzle. Recently, Hansen and Milosavljevic (2003, HM) have argued that an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuri Levin , Alice S. P. Wu , Edward W. Thommes

Few dozens of young high mass stars orbit Sgr A* at distances as short as 0.1 parsec, where star formation should be quenched by the strong tidal shear from Sgr A*. The puzzling young stellar population is believed to come into existence in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergei Nayakshin , Rashid Sunyaev

The young stars near the supermassive black hole at the galactic center follow orbits that are nearly random in orientation and that have an approximately thermal distribution of eccentricities, N(e) ~ e. We show that both of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Merritt , Alessia Gualandris , Seppo Mikkola

Within the distance of 1 pc from the Galactic center (GC), more than 100 young massive stars have been found. The massive stars at 0.1-1 pc from the GC are located in one or two disks, while those within 0.1 pc from the GC, S-stars, have an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Michiko Fujii , Masaki Iwasawa , Yoko Funato , Junichiro Makino

The presence of young massive stars in the Galactic Centre (GC) raises questions about star formation near the black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Additionally, the initial mass function (IMF) in this region appears different from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-18 E. Gallego-Cano , T. Fritz , R. Schödel , A. Feldmeier-Krause , T. Do , S. Nishiyama

The central parsec of the Milky Way hosts two puzzlingly young stellar populations, a tight isotropic distribution of B stars around SgrA* (the S-stars) and a disk of OB stars extending to ~0.5pc. Using a modified version of Sverre…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 J. A. Petts , A. Gualandris

The Galactic centre contains several young populations within its central parsec: a disk between $\sim$0.05 and 0.5 pc from the centre, and the isotropic S-star cluster extending an order of magnitude further inwards in radius. Recent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-15 Aleksey Generozov

Observations of the galactic center revealed a population of young massive stars within 0.4 pc from Sgr A* -- the presumed location of a supermassive black hole. The origin of these stars is a puzzle as their formation in citu should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Yuri Levin , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Various past theoretical considerations and observational efforts suggest the presence of a population of stellar-mass black holes in the innermost parsec of the Galactic centre. In this Letter, we investigate the impact of these black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-21 Jaroslav Haas , Pavel Kroupa , Ladislav Šubr , Myank Singhal

It is believed that young massive stars orbiting Sgr A* in two stellar discs on scales of 0.1-0.2 parsecs were formed either farther out in the Galaxy and then quickly migrated inward, or in situ in a massive self-gravitating disc.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergei Nayakshin , Walter Dehnen , Jorge Cuadra , Reinhard Genzel

The Galactic Center provides a unique opportunity to observe a galactic core, objects in close proximity to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), and star formation channels that exhibit imprints of this peculiar environment. This habitat…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-18 Maria Melamed , Florian Peißker

We present results from dynamical Monte Carlo simulations of dense star clusters near the Galactic center. These clusters sink toward the center of the Galaxy by dynamical friction. During their inspiral, they may undergo core collapse and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Atakan Gürkan , Frederic A. Rasio

We aim at modelling small groups of young stars such as IRS 13N, 0.1 pc away from Sgr A*, which is suggested to contain a few embedded massive young stellar objects. We perform hydrodynamical simulations to follow the evolution of molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 B. Jalali , I. Pelupessy , A. Eckart , S. Portegies Zwart , N. Sabha , A. Borkar , J. Moultaka , K. Muzic , L. Moser

A massive young star cluster, initially embedded in its parent molecular cloud, will spiral into the Galactic Center from $\lta 30m_6^{1/2}\pc$ during the life-time of its most massive stars, if the combined total mass is $\sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ortwin Gerhard

The presence of young stars in the immediate vicinity and strong tidal field of SgrA* remains unexplained. One currently popular idea for their origin posits that the stars were bused in by an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole (IMBH) which has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri Levin

The Milky Way Galaxy hosts a four million solar mass black hole, Sgr A*, that underwent a major accretion episode approximately 3-6 Myr ago. During the episode, hundreds of young massive stars formed in a disc orbiting Sgr A* in the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-30 A. Generozov , S. Nayakshin , A. M. Madigan
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