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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★ 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.GA2016★ 1 cited

The late-type stellar density profile in the Galactic Center: A statistical approach

Samantha N. Chappell, Andrea M. Ghez, Tuan Do +5

The late-type stellar population in the Galactic Center was first predicted to reside in a dynamically relaxed cusp (power law slope ranging from 3/2 to 7/4). However, observations…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 288 cited

An Improved Distance and Mass Estimate for Sgr A* from a Multistar Orbit Analysis

A. Boehle, A. M. Ghez, R. Schödel +11

We present new, more precise measurements of the mass and distance of our Galaxy's central supermassive black hole, Sgr A*. These results stem from a new analysis that more than do…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 99 cited

The nuclear cluster of the Milky Way: Our primary testbed for the interaction of a dense star cluster with a massive black hole

R. Schödel, A. Feldmeier, N. Neumayer +2

This article intends to provide a concise overview, from an observational point-of-view, of the current state of our knowledge of the most relevant properties of the Milky Way's nu…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 112 cited

Detection of Galactic Center source G2 at 3.8 m during periapse passage

Gunther Witzel, Andrea M. Ghez, Mark R. Morris +14

We report new observations of the Galactic Center source G2 from the W. M. Keck Observatory. G2 is a dusty red object associated with gas that shows tidal interactions as it nears…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 4 cited

The Keplerian orbit of G2

L. Meyer, A. M. Ghez, G. Witzel +8

We give an update of the observations and analysis of G2 - the gaseous red emission-line object that is on a very eccentric orbit around the Galaxy's central black hole and predict…