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most citedThe formation and stability of a cold disc made out of stellar winds in the Galactic Centre

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7 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Isolating Sgr A East: The First Uncontaminated X-ray Maps of a Galactic Center Supernova Remnant

Mayura Balakrishnan, Adrien Picquenot, Lia Corales +3

The central few parsecs of the Milky Way host a complex X-ray-emitting environment in which several extended plasma components are blended along the line of sight, complicating att…

astro-ph.HE2026

Detection and Evolution of Linear Polarization of the Galactic Center Transient MAXI J1744-294

Joseph M. Michail, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Mayura Balakrishnan +14

MAXI J1744294, likely a low-mass X-ray binary system, is a Galactic-center transient source, detected at radio and X-ray wavelengths, located approximately southeast of S…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Therapy Session with Sgr A*

Mayura Balakrishnan, Robert Frazier, Joseph Michail

The nature of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) has been the subject of intense study and debate for over half a century. Herein, we present the first successful interview with an astrophysi…

astro-ph.HE2025

First Mid-infrared Detection and Modeling of a Flare from Sgr A*. II. Mid-IR Spectral Energy Distribution and Millimeter Polarimetry

Joseph M. Michail, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg, Garrett K. Keating +20

S. D. von Fellenberg et al. (2025a, Paper I) reported the first mid-infrared detection of a flare from Sgr A*. The JWST/MIRI/MRS observations were consistent with an orbiting hotsp…

astro-ph.HE2024

Overionized plasma in the supernova remnant Sagittarius A East anchored by XRISM observations

XRISM Collaboration

Sagittarius A East is a supernova remnant with a unique surrounding environment, as it is located in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center, S…

astro-ph.IM20241 cited

MAUVE: An Ultraviolet Astrophysics Probe Mission Concept

Mayura Balakrishnan, Rory Bowens, Fernando Cruz Aguirre +18

We present the mission concept "Mission to Analyze the UltraViolet universE" (MAUVE), a wide-field spectrometer and imager conceived during the inaugural NASA Astrophysics Mission…