16 papers
Superdiffusion at the Galactic Centre
Pau Amaro Seoane, Kostas Tzanavaris, Reinhard Genzel +14
The paper models the orbital evolution of the S‑star cluster around the Milky Way’s central black hole using a superdiffusive, fractional transport framework that accounts for long…
Stellar rotation of S301 as a macroscopic gyroscope to test general relativity
Pau Amaro Seoane, Xian Chen, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela +16
The paper studies how the rotation of the S301 star near the Galactic Center can act as a macroscopic gyroscope, using its relativistic precession to test general relativity with i…
S301 and friends: Measuring the spin of Sgr A*
T. Piran, P. Amaro-Seoane, B. Aytac +15
The discovery of S301 (GRAVITY Collaboration et al., 2026) with pericenter distance rp= 280rg and eccentricity e=0.9825, opens the prospect of measuring the spin parameter of Sgr A…
The Origin of the Magnetic Flux Driving TDE Jets
Nimrod Tripto, Julian Krolik, Tsvi Piran
Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) occur when a star approaches a black hole closely enough to be torn apart by tidal forces, after which the stellar debris begins to orbit the black h…
Discovery of a star sensitive to the spin of Sgr A*
K. Abd El Dayem, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +85
The paper reports the discovery of a faint main‑sequence star (S301) on an 8.7‑year, highly eccentric orbit around the Milky Way’s central black hole, whose high velocity makes its…
Las Cumbres Observatory Gravitational-Wave Follow-up in the Third and Fourth Observing Runs: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Rapid Response Galaxy Targeted Strategy
Ido Keinan, Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell +34
We present a summary of gravitational-wave (GW) follow-up using the Las Cumbres Observatory global network of telescopes during the third (O3) and fourth (O4) observing runs of the…