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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.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.GA2023★ 20 cited

Evidence of a Decreased Binary Fraction for Massive Stars Within 20 Milliparsecs of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center

Devin S. Chu, Tuan Do, Andrea Ghez +12

We present the results of the first systematic search for spectroscopic binaries within the central 2 x 3 arcsec around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky W…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 20 cited

Stellar Populations in the Central 0.5 pc of Our Galaxy III: The Dynamical Sub-structures

Siyao Jia, Ningyuan Xu, Jessica R. Lu +12

We measure the 3D kinematic structures of the young stars within the central 0.5 parsec of our Galactic Center using the 10 m telescopes of the W.~M.~Keck Observatory over a time s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

The Swansong of the Galactic Center Source X7: An Extreme Example of Tidal Evolution near the Supermassive Black Hole

Anna Ciurlo, Randall D. Campbell, Mark R. Morris +14

We present two decades of new high-angular-resolution near-infrared data from the W. M. Keck Observatory that reveal extreme evolution in X7, an elongated dust and gas feature, pre…