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The Galactic Center Reference Frame: A 30-Year Solution
Jeremy Darling, Jennie Paine, Matthew Hosek +6
Stellar orbits probe the metric of and mass around the Sgr A* massive black hole. To enable study of the black hole, the surrounding mass, and tests of gravity, a precise reference…
Detection of the Schwarzschild precession in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole
GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, A. Amorim +53
The star S2 orbiting the compact radio source Sgr A* is a precision probe of the gravitational field around the closest massive black hole (candidate). Over the last 2.7 decades we…
A geometric distance measurement to the Galactic Center black hole with 0.3% uncertainty
R. Abuter, A. Amorim, M. Bauboeck +51
We present a 0.16% precise and 0.27% accurate determination of R0, the distance to the Galactic Center. Our measurement uses the star S2 on its 16-year orbit around the massive bla…
Detection of a drag force in G2's orbit: Measuring the density of the accretion flow onto Sgr A* at 1000 Schwarzschild radii
S. Gillessen, P. M. Plewa, F. Widmann +14
The Galactic Center black hole Sgr A* is the archetypical example of an underfed massive black hole. The extremely low accretion rate can be understood in radiatively inefficient a…
The Molecular and Ionized Gas Phases of an AGN-driven Outflow in a Typical Massive Galaxy at z=2
R. Herrera-Camus, L. J. Tacconi, R. Genzel +22
Nuclear outflows driven by accreting massive black holes are one of the main feedback mechanisms invoked at high-z to reproduce the distinct separation between star-forming, disk g…
The KMOS Survey: rotating compact star forming galaxies and the decomposition of integrated line widths
E. Wisnioski, J. T. Mendel, N. M. Förster Schreiber +23
Using integral field spectroscopy we investigate the kinematic properties of 35 massive centrally-dense and compact star-forming galaxies (, $\log{(Σ_\…
The Role of Molecular Gas in Obscuring Seyfert Active Galactic Nuclei
E. K. S. Hicks, R. I. Davies, M. A. Malkan +4
In a sample of local active galactic nuclei studied at a spatial resolution on the order of 10 pc we show that the interstellar medium traced by the molecular hydrogen v=1-0 S(1) 2…