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astro-ph.GA2012★ 227 cited

The Shortest Known Period Star Orbiting our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole

L. Meyer, A. M. Ghez, R. Schoedel +7

Stars with short orbital periods at the center of our galaxy offer a powerful and unique probe of a supermassive black hole. Over the past 17 years, the W. M. Keck Observatory has…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 5 cited

Adaptive Optics Observations of the Galactic Center Young Stars

S. Yelda, A. M. Ghez, J. R. Lu +3

Adaptive Optics observations have dramatically improved the quality and versatility of high angular resolution measurements of the center of our Galaxy. In this paper, we quantify…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 70 cited

Investigation of Dual Active Nuclei, Outflows, Shock-Heated Gas, and Young Star Clusters in Markarian 266

J. M. Mazzarella, K. Iwasawa, T. Vavilkin +24

Results of observations with the Spitzer, Hubble, GALEX, Chandra, and XMM-Newton space telescopes are presented for the Luminous Infrared Galaxy (LIRG) merger Mrk 266. The SW (Seyf…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 68 cited

The Unique Na:O Abundance Distribution in NGC 6791: The First Open(?) Cluster with Multiple Populations

D. Geisler, S. Villanova, G. Carraro +4

Almost all globular clusters investigated exhibit a spread in their light element abundances, the most studied being a Na:O anticorrelation. In contrast, open clusters show a homog…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 134 cited

The linewidth-size relationship in the dense ISM of the Central Molecular Zone

Rahul Shetty, Christopher N. Beaumont, Michael G. Burton +2

The linewidth (sigma) - size (R) relationship has been extensively measured and analysed, in both the local ISM and in nearby normal galaxies. Generally, a power-law describes the…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 84 cited

GASPS observations of Herbig Ae/Be stars with PACS/Herschel. The atomic and molecular content of their protoplanetary discs

G. Meeus, B. Montesinos, I. Mendigutia +3

We observed a sample of 20 representative Herbig Ae/Be stars and five A-type debris discs with PACS onboard of Herschel. The observations were done in spectroscopic mode, and cover…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 15 cited

[S IV] in the NGC 5253 Supernebula: Ionized Gas Kinematics at High Resolution

Sara C. Beck, John H. Lacy, Jean L. Turner +3

The nearby dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 5253 hosts a deeply embedded radio-infrared supernebula excited by thousands of O stars. We have observed this source in the 10.5μm line of S+…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 72 cited

870 micron Imaging of a Transitional Disk in Upper Scorpius: Holdover from the Era of Giant Planet Formation?

Geoffrey S. Mathews, Jonathan P. Williams, Francois Menard

We present 880 micron images of the transition disk around the star [PZ99] J160421.7-213028, a solar-mass star in the nearby Upper Scorpius association. With a resolution down to 0…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 9 cited

A Wide-Field Near-Ir H2 2.122m line survey of the Braid Nebula Star Formation Region in Cygnus OB7

T. Khanzadyan, C. J. Davis, C. Aspin +8

Context. Outflows and jets are the first signposts of ongoing star formation processes in any molecular cloud, yet their study in optical bands provides limited results due to the…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 26 cited

The Resolved Stellar Population in 50 Regions of M83 from HST/WFC3 Early Release Science Observations

Hwihyun Kim, Bradley C. Whitmore, Rupali Chandar +22

We present a multi-wavelength photometric study of ~15,000 resolved stars in the nearby spiral galaxy M83 (NGC5236, D=4.61Mpc) based on Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 o…

astro-ph.GA2012★ 26 cited

The kinetic temperature in a damped Lyman-alpha absorption system in Q2206-199 - an example of the warm neutral medium

R. F. Carswell, G. D. Becker, R. A. Jorgenson +2

By comparing the widths of absorption lines from OI, SiII and FeII in the redshift z=2.076 single-component damped Lyman alpha absorption system in the spectrum of Q2206-199 we est…