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astro-ph.SR2018★ 55 cited
Hypervelocity stars in the Gaia era: Runaway B stars beyond the velocity limit of classical ejection mechanisms
Andreas Irrgang, Simon Kreuzer, Ulrich Heber
Young massive stars in the halo are assumed to be runaway stars from the Galactic disk. Possible ejection scenarios are binary supernova ejections (BSE) or dynamical ejections from…
astro-ph.SR2018★ 37 cited
A quantitative spectral analysis of 14 hypervelocity stars from the MMT survey
Andreas Irrgang, Simon Kreuzer, Ulrich Heber +1
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) travel so fast that they may leave the Galaxy. The tidal disruption of a binary system by the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center is widely as…