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most citedMeasuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits

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astro-ph.GA2017★ 33 cited

Near-Infrared Variability Study of the Central 2.3 arcmin x 2.3 arcmin of the Galactic Centre II. Identification of RR Lyrae Stars in the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster

Hui Dong, Rainer Schodel, Benjamin F. Williams +8

Because of strong and spatially highly variable interstellar extinction and extreme source crowding, the faint (K>15) stellar population in the Milky Way's nuclear cluster is still…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 40 cited

The Post-Periapse Evolution of Galactic Center Source G1: The second case of a resolved tidal interaction with a supermassive black hole

Gunther Witzel, Breann. N. Sitarski, Andrea M. Ghez +13

We present new Adaptive Optics (AO) imaging and spectroscopic measurements of Galactic Center source G1 from W. M. Keck Observatory. Our goal is to understand its nature and relati…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 6 cited

Testing the gravitational theory with short-period stars around our Galactic Center

A. Hees, A. M. Ghez, T. Do +19

Motion of short-period stars orbiting the supermassive black hole in our Galactic Center has been monitored for more than 20 years. These observations are currently offering a new…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 271 cited

Testing General Relativity with stellar orbits around the supermassive black hole in our Galactic center

A. Hees, T. Do, A. M. Ghez +14

In this Letter, we demonstrate that short-period stars orbiting around the supermassive black hole in our Galactic Center can successfully be used to probe the gravitational theory…