5 papers
A Kinematic Study of Wolf-Rayet Stars at the Galactic Center I: Binary Candidates and Constraints on the Binary Fraction
Rory O. Bentley, Tuan Do, Andrea Ghez +13
We report the binary fraction of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars within 0.5~pc of the Galactic center obtained through the longest time-baseline (1994-2024) kinematic study of this populatio…
IRS 9: The Case for a Dynamically-Ejected Star from the Galactic Center
Matthew Hosek, Tuan Do, Smadar Naoz +7
Measuring stellar motions at the Milky Way's Galactic center (GC) provides unique insight into the dynamical processes within galactic nuclei. We present proper motion measurements…
Structure and Dynamics of the Young Massive Star Cluster Westerlund 1
Lingfeng Wei, Matthew W. Hosek, Jessica R. Lu +8
We present a structural analysis of the young massive star cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd 1). With multi-epoch Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations, we measure the proper motions of…
The HST-Gaia Near-Infrared Astrometric Reference Frame near the Milky Way Galactic Center
Matthew W. Hosek, Tuan Do, Gregory D. Martinez +5
We present the first high-precision proper motion catalog, tied to the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), of infrared astrometric reference stars within R 25"…
New Evidence for a Flux-independent Spectral Index of Sgr A* in the Near-infrared
Hadrien Paugnat, Tuan Do, Abhimat K. Gautam +11
In this work, we measure the spectral index of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) between the (1.6 m) and (2.2 m) broadband filters in the near-infrared (NIR), sampling…