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Explaining the Orbits of the Galactic Center S-Stars
David Merritt, Alessia Gualandris, Seppo Mikkola
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 e…
astro-ph2008★ 1 cited
Dynamical evolution of the young stars in the Galactic center
Hagai. B. Perets, Alessia Gualandris, David Merritt +1
Recent observations of the Galactic center revealed a nuclear disk of young OB stars near the massive black hole (MBH), in addition to many similar outlying stars with higher eccen…