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most citedClosest Star Seen Orbiting the Supermassive Black Hole at the Centre of the Milky Way

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8 papers

astro-ph2008★ 573 cited

A probable giant planet imaged in the Beta Pictoris disk

A. -M. Lagrange, D. Gratadour, G. Chauvin +12

Since the discovery of its dusty disk in 1984, Beta Pictoris has become the prototype of young early-type planetary systems, and there are now various indications that a massive Jo…

astro-ph2003★ 45 cited

The infrared L'-band view of the Galactic Center with NAOS-CONICA at VLT

Y. Clénet, D. Rouan, E. Gendron +9

We report on Galactic Center L'-band observations made during NAOS/CONICA Science Verification. Colors of the inner 2" stars reveal an infrared excess of S2, the closest star to th…

astro-ph2003★ 42 cited

Hot Very Small dust Grains in NGC 1068 seen in jet induced structures thanks to VLT/NACO adaptive optics

Daniel Rouan, Francois Lacombe, Eric Gendron +12

We present K, L and M diffraction-limited images of NGC 1068 obtained with NAOS+CONICA at VLT/YEPUN over a 3.5" field around the central engine. Hot dust (Tcol = 550-650 K) is foun…

astro-ph2003★ 26 cited

VLT/NACO infrared adaptive optics images of small scale structures in OMC1

Francois Lacombe, Eric Gendron, Daniel Rouan +10

Near-infrared observations of line emission from excited H2 and in the continuum are reported in the direction of the Orion molecular cloud OMC1, using the European Southern Observ…

astro-ph2003★ 690 cited

Near-infrared flares from accreting gas around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre

R. Genzel, R. Schoedel, T. Ott +5

Recent measurements of stellar orbits provide compelling evidence that the compact radio source Sagittarius A* at the Galactic Centre is a 3.6-million-solar-mass black hole. Sgr A*…

astro-ph2003★ 590 cited

The Stellar Cusp Around the Supermassive Black Hole in the Galactic Center

R. Genzel, R. Schoedel, T. Ott +12

We analyze deep near-IR adaptive optics imaging as well as new proper motion data of the nuclear star cluster of the Milky Way. The surface density distribution of faint stars peak…