10 papers
A Long Period Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binary in Centauri
Matthew Whitaker, Evan Kerr, Anil Seth +16
Modern simulations of stellar dynamics in globular clusters peg a dominant role for stellar-mass black holes, but direct evidence for black holes in clusters remains limited. We pr…
oMEGACat. X. Shedding light on the disrupted dwarf galaxy of Omega Centauri
Stefano Souza, Nadine Neumayer, Anil C. Seth +15
Omega Centauri (Cen) is the most massive and chemically complex star cluster in the Milky Way and is widely regarded as the surviving nuclear star cluster of an accreted dwar…
oMEGACat. IX. Chemical Tagging of Omega Centauri Populations with Machine-Learning-Inferred Abundances from the MUSE Spectrograph
Z. Wang, A. C. Seth, C. Clontz +14
We present chemical abundance measurements for 7,302 red giant branch stars within the half-light radius (~5') of Centauri ( Cen), derived from MUSE spectra using the neur…
Age, Chemistry, and Kinematics of the Inner Galaxy Revealed by MUSE
Zixian Wang, Michael R. Hayden, Sanjib Sharma +3
The bar/bulge and inner disk are fundamental building blocks of the Milky Way, containing a large fraction of its stellar mass. However, stars in these regions are faint, crowded,…
oMEGACat. VIII. A Subpopulation Census of Ï Centauri
C. Clontz, A. C. Seth, Z. Wang +8
An understanding of the assembly history of the complex star cluster Omega Centauri has long been sought after, with many studies separating the stars on the color-magnitude diagra…
oMEGACat. VII. Tracing Interstellar and Intracluster Medium of Centauri using Sodium Absorptions
Z. Wang, A. C. Seth, M. Latour +14
We investigate the foreground interstellar medium along the line of sight and intracluster medium of Centauri ( Cen) by measuring the equivalent width of Na I D absorption…