The Fate of Binaries in the Galactic Center: The Mundane and the Exotic

Alexander P. Stephan, Smadar Naoz, Andrea M. Ghez +6

The Galactic Center (GC) is dominated by the gravity of a super-massive black hole (SMBH), Sagittarius A${}^{\ast }$, and is suspected to contain a sizable population of binary stars. Such…