The structure of the nuclear stellar cluster of the Milky Way
Abstract
High-resolution adaptive optics observations of the inner 0.5 pc of the Milky Way with multiple intermediate band filters are presented. From the images, stellar number counts and a detailed map of the interstellar extinction were extracted. The extinction map is consistent with a putative southwest-northeast aligned outflow from the central arcseconds.
- Publication:
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Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies -- Across the Range of Masses
- Pub Date:
- April 2007
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2007IAUS..238..187S
- Keywords:
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- Stellar dynamics;
- Galaxy: center;
- Galaxy: nucleus