10 papers
When bars and spirals conspire: recurrent build-up of the nuclear regions of disc galaxies
Tristan Boin, Sergey Khoperskov, Paola Di Matteo +6
The assembly history of the central regions of disc galaxies is regulated by dynamical processes that trigger gas infall events, leading to active star formation in nuclear stellar…
X-shooter spectroscopy of giant stars in the nuclear star cluster
L. Origlia, C. Fanelli, A. Mucciarelli +5
Near-IR spectra of a homogeneous sample of 15 red giants in the Galactic nuclear star cluster, within 1.5 pc of SgrA*, have been acquired with X-shooter at the Very Large Telescope…
Reassessing the low- massive sequence stars in Gaia RVS
G. Nandakumar, G. Kordopatis, M. Schultheis +4
Recently, a chemically depleted young massive stellar population was identified using the spectroscopic catalogue of Gaia DR3. To explain its characteristics, a recent enhanced sta…
The Nephele ecosystem: stars, globular clusters, and stellar streams associated with the progenitor galaxy of Centauri
G. Pagnini, P. Di Matteo, M. Haywood +7
Globular clusters (GCs) and their associated stellar streams are key tracers of the hierarchical assembly history of the Milky Way. Centauri, the most massive and chemically c…
The LEGARE Project. I. Chemical evolution model of the Nuclear Stellar Disc in a Bayesian framework
E. Spitoni, M. Schultheis, F. Matteucci +5
The Nuclear Stellar Disc (NSD) of the Milky Way is a dense, rotating stellar system in the central 200 pc. The NSD is thought to be primarily fuelled by bar-driven gas inflows from…
The JWST Galactic Center Survey -- A White Paper
Rainer Schoedel, Steve Longmore, Jonny Henshaw +111
The inner hundred parsecs of the Milky Way hosts the nearest supermassive black hole, largest reservoir of dense gas, greatest stellar density, hundreds of massive main and post ma…