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astro-ph.SR2018★ 37 cited
A quantitative spectral analysis of 14 hypervelocity stars from the MMT survey
Andreas Irrgang, Simon Kreuzer, Ulrich Heber +1
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) travel so fast that they may leave the Galaxy. The tidal disruption of a binary system by the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center is widely as…
astro-ph.SR2014★ 24 cited
The Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way
John J. Bochanski, Beth Willman, Nelson Caldwell +4
We report on the discovery of the most distant Milky Way (MW) stars known to date: ULAS J001535.72015549.6 and ULAS J074417.48253233.0. These stars were selected as M giant c…