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most citedStellar Orbits Around the Galactic Center Black Hole

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astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

The JWST Galactic Center Survey -- A White Paper

Rainer Schoedel, Steve Longmore, Jonny Henshaw +111

The inner hundred parsecs of the Milky Way hosts the nearest supermassive black hole, largest reservoir of dense gas, greatest stellar density, hundreds of massive main and post ma…

astro-ph.GA2023

Near-Infrared Flux Distribution of Sgr A* from 2005-2022: Evidence for an Enhanced Accretion Episode in 2019

Grant C. Weldon, Tuan Do, Gunther Witzel +10

Sgr A* is the variable electromagnetic source associated with accretion onto the Galactic center supermassive black hole. While the near-infrared (NIR) variability of Sgr A* was sh…

astro-ph.SR2023

A re-analysis of the isolated black hole candidate OGLE-2011-BLG-0462/MOA-2011-BLG-191

Casey Y. Lam, Jessica R. Lu

There are expected to be isolated black holes (BHs) in the Milky Way. OGLE-2011-BLG-0462/MOA-2011-BLG-191 (OB110462) is the only such BH with a mass measurement to date…

astro-ph.GA2023

Roman Early-Definition Astrophysics Survey Opportunity: Galactic Roman Infrared Plane Survey (GRIPS)

Roberta Paladini, Catherine Zucker, Robert Benjamin +67

A wide-field near-infrared survey of the Galactic disk and bulge/bar(s) is supported by a large representation of the community of Galactic astronomers. The combination of sensitiv…

astro-ph.IM2023

Roman CCS White Paper: Characterizing the Galactic population of isolated black holes

Casey Y. Lam, Natasha Abrams, Jeff Andrews +34

Although there are estimated to be 100 million isolated black holes (BHs) in the Milky Way, only one has been found so far, resulting in significant uncertainty about their propert…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

The Galactic Center with Roman

Sean K. Terry, Matthew W. Hosek, Jessica R. Lu +31

We advocate for a Galactic center (GC) field to be added to the Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey (GBTDS). The new field would yield high-cadence photometric and astrometric measur…