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astro-ph2008★ 365 cited
A Disk of Young Stars at the Galactic Center as Determined by Individual Stellar Orbits
J. R. Lu, A. M. Ghez, S. D. Hornstein +3
We present new proper motions from the 10 m Keck telescopes for a puzzling population of massive, young stars located within 3.5" (0.14 pc) of the supermassive black hole at the Ga…
astro-ph2008★ 1.6k cited
Measuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits
A. M. Ghez, S. Salim, N. N. Weinberg +10
We report new precision measurements of the properties of our Galaxy's supermassive black hole. Based on astrometric (1995-2007) and radial velocity (2000-2007) measurements from t…