13 papers
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…
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…
When to Align, When to Predict: A Phase Diagram for Multimodal Learning
Ilay Kamai, Hugues Van Assel, Aviv Regev +2
Cross-modal alignment (CA) and cross-modal prediction (CP) are the dominant paradigms for multimodal representation learning, yet there is no systematic understanding of when each…
An interferometric study of B star multiplicity
A. J. Frost, H. Sana, J-B Le Bouquin +7
Massive stars can have extreme effects on their environments from local to galactic scales. While O star multiplicity has been studied over a broad separation range (to the point w…
The bound origin of low-mass stellar binaries
A. Generozov, S. S. R. Offner, K. M. Kratter +3
Most main sequence stars, unlike our Sun, belong to multiple systems with two or more stars. How and when these multiples come together and become bound is uncertain, since the ear…
The S stars' zone of avoidance in the Galactic center
Aleksey Generozov, Hagai B. Perets, Matteo S. Bordoni +9
This paper investigates the origin and orbital evolution of S stars in the Galactic center using models of binary disruption and relaxation processes. We focus on explaining the re…