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most citedThe Galactic Center: Improved Relative Astrometry for Velocities, Accelerations, and Orbits near the Supermassive Black Hole

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astro-ph.GA2026

Absolute Motion of the Infrared Counterpart to Sagittarius A* in the Gaia Celestial Reference Frame 3 and Limits on an Intermediate-mass Black Hole Companion

Rebecca A. Lewis-Merrill, Tuan Do, Matthew W. Hosek +9

We report the first proper motion and acceleration measurements of the infrared (IR) counterpart to Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*-IR), the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Kinematic Study of Wolf-Rayet Stars at the Galactic Center I: Binary Candidates and Constraints on the Binary Fraction

Rory O. Bentley, Tuan Do, Andrea Ghez +13

We report the binary fraction of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars within 0.5~pc of the Galactic center obtained through the longest time-baseline (1994-2024) kinematic study of this populatio…

astro-ph.GA2026

IRS 9: The Case for a Dynamically-Ejected Star from the Galactic Center

Matthew Hosek, Tuan Do, Smadar Naoz +7

Measuring stellar motions at the Milky Way's Galactic center (GC) provides unique insight into the dynamical processes within galactic nuclei. We present proper motion measurements…

astro-ph.GA2025

The HST-Gaia Near-Infrared Astrometric Reference Frame near the Milky Way Galactic Center

Matthew W. Hosek, Tuan Do, Gregory D. Martinez +5

We present the first high-precision proper motion catalog, tied to the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), of infrared astrometric reference stars within R 25"…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 4 cited

The Galactic Center in Color: Measuring Extinction with High-Proper-Motion Stars

Z. Haggard, A. M. Ghez, S. Sakai +6

The Milky Way's central parsec is a highly extinguished region with a population of high-proper-motion stars. We have tracked 145 stars for 10 years at wavelengths between 1…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 33 cited

The Galactic Center: Improved Relative Astrometry for Velocities, Accelerations, and Orbits near the Supermassive Black Hole

Siyao Jia, Jessica R. Lu, S . Sakai +11

We present improved relative astrometry for stars within the central half parsec of our Galactic Center based on data obtained with the 10 m W. M. Keck Observatory from 1995 to 201…