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20142026
most citedS62 and S4711: Indications of a population of faint fast moving stars inside the S2 orbit -- S4711 on a 7.6 year orbit around Sgr~A*

83 citations · 716 across the 50 of their papers we have counts for

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52 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Does IRS13 require an intermediate-mass black hole?

Václav Pavlík, Vladimír Karas, Florian Peißker +2

We investigate whether the Galactic-centre association IRS13 requires an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) to remain bound. Using high-precision -body calculations of IRS13-li…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dust production in the harsh environment of Sgr A* - MIRI/JWST observation of the O-rich asymptotic giant branch star IRS~3

F. Peißker, M. García Marín, A. Eckart +18

Studies of the interstellar medium (ISM) have frequently revealed signatures of the dust produced in the envelopes of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, demonstrating a connectio…

astro-ph.GA2026

The flaring drill in the Galactic centre. Did the IRS 13 cluster carve out the mini-cavity in the mini-spiral?

Jaroslav Haas, Pavel Kroupa, Florian Peißker +1

The mini-cavity is a low-density region observed in the complex of streams of ionized gas around the Galactic central supermassive black hole, Sgr A, known as the mini-spir…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spatially resolved metallicity and ionization in the merging system Gz9p3 at z=9.3

Arjan Bik, Javier Álvarez-Márquez, Alejandro Crespo Gómez +26

Studying the interstellar medium (ISM) in merging high-redshift galaxies is crucial for understanding early galaxy assembly, star formation, and black hole growth, predicted by hie…

astro-ph.GA2026

MIDIS: The identification of deep MIRI-red sources as candidates for extreme Balmer-break and line emitting galaxies at high-z

I. Jermann, G. Brammer, S. Gillman +27

We investigate the detection and nature of 5.6~μm MIRI-red sources in the MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (MIDIS), covering 2.4~arcmin in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. MIDIS is the dee…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The dynamics of S-stars and G-sources orbiting a supermassive compact object made of fermionic dark matter

Valentina Crespi, Carlos R. Argüelles, Eduar A. Becerra-Vergara +4

Surrounding Sgr A*, a cluster of young and massive stars coexist with a population of dust-enshrouded objects, whose astrometric data can be used to scrutinize the nature of Sgr A*…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

MIDIS: Unveiling the Star Formation History in massive galaxies at with spectro-photometric analysis

M. Annunziatella, P. G. Pérez-González, J. Álvarez-Márquez +23

We investigate the star formation histories (SFHs) of a sample of massive galaxies () in the redshift range . We analyze spectro-photo…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Spatially resolved H emission in B14-65666: compact starbursts, ionizing efficiency and gas kinematics in an advanced merger at the Epoch of Reionization

C. Prieto-Jiménez, J. Álvarez-Márquez, L. Colina +28

We present MIRI/JWST medium resolution spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MIRIM) of B14-65666, a Lyman-break and interacting galaxy at redshift =7.15. We detect the H line emiss…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deciphering the Nature of Virgil: An Obscured AGN Lurking Within an Apparently Normal Lyman-α Emitter During Cosmic Reionization

Pierluigi Rinaldi, Pablo G. Pérez-González, George H. Rieke +46

We present a comprehensive analysis of the MIRI Extremely Red Object Virgil, a Lyman- emitter at with the photometric properties of a Little Red D…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Compact stellar systems hosting an intermediate mass black hole: magnetohydrodynamic study of inflow-outflow dynamics

Matúš Labaj, Sean M. Ressler, Michal Zajaček +3

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are a missing link in black hole demographics, with only tentative observational evidence to date. Dense stellar clusters such as IRS 13E near…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The rise of the galactic empire: luminosity functions at and estimated with the MIDISNGDEEP ultra-deep JWST/NIRCam dataset

Pablo G. Pérez-González, Göran Östlin, Luca Costantin +39

We present a sample of six F200W and three F277W dropout sources identified as galaxy candidates using the deepest JWST/NIRCam data to date (5 depths mag at…

astro-ph.GA2025

MIDIS: Quantifying the AGN component of X-ray-detected galaxies

Steven Gillman, John P. Pye, Almudena Alonso-Herrero +26

We combine the deepest X-ray survey from the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S) `7-Ms' survey with the deepest mid-infrared (5.6) image from the JWST/MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (M…

astro-ph.GA2024

Update on Dusty Sources and Candidate Young Stellar Objects in the S-cluster

Maria Melamed, Florian Peißker

The Galactic Center provides a unique opportunity to observe a galactic core, objects in close proximity to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), and star formation channels that exhib…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

A binary system in the S cluster close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*

Florian Peißker, Michal Zajacek, Lucas Labadie +4

High-velocity stars and peculiar G objects orbit the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Together, the G objects and high-velocity stars constitute the…

astro-ph.GA2024

Galactic center G objects as dust-enshrouded stars near the supermassive black hole

Michal Zajaček, Monika Pikhartová, Florian Peissker

In this contribution, we revisit the model of a dust-enshrouded star orbiting a low-luminosity galactic nucleus (Zajaček et al. 2014, 2016, 2017). Although it is quite challenging…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 3 cited

Dynamics of star associations in an SMBH-IMBH system: The case of IRS13 in the Galactic centre

Václav Pavlík, Vladimír Karas, Bhavana Bhat +2

Context: The existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) still poses challenges to theoretical and observational astronomers. Several candidates have been proposed, includin…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

The Evaporating Massive Embedded Stellar Cluster IRS 13 Close to Sgr A*. II. Kinematic structure

Florian Peißker, Michal Zajacek, Matus Labaj +8

The existence of two distinct and apparently unrelated populations of dusty stellar objects in the Nuclear Stellar Cluster (NSC) of the Milky Way, namely IRS 13 and the S-cluster,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

MIDIS. Near-infrared rest-frame morphology of massive galaxies at in the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field

L. Costantin, S. Gillman, L. A. Boogaard +29

Thanks to decades of observations using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the structure of galaxies at redshift has been widely studied in the rest-frame ultraviolet regime,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

JWST/MIRI unveils the stellar component of the GN20 dusty galaxy overdensity at =4.05

A. Crespo Gómez, L. Colina, J. Álvarez-Márquez +24

Despite the importance of the dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs) at >2 for understanding the galaxy evolution in the early Universe, their stellar distributions traced by the n…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 15 cited

Clumpy star formation and an obscured nuclear starburst in the luminous dusty z=4 galaxy GN20 seen by MIRI/JWST

A. Bik, J. Álvarez-Márquez, L. Colina +28

Dusty star-forming galaxies emit most of their light at far-IR to mm wavelengths as their star formation is highly obscured. Far-IR and mm observations have revealed their dust, ne…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Evaporating Massive Embedded Stellar Cluster IRS 13 Close to Sgr A*. I. Detection of a rich population of dusty objects in the IRS 13 cluster

Florian Peißker, Michal Zajaček, Lauritz Thomkins +6

A detailed analysis of the Nuclear Stellar Cluster (NSC) concedes not only the existence of the Scluster with its fast-moving stars and the supermassive black hole (SMBH) Sgr A*. I…

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★ 2 cited

MIDIS: Unveiling the Role of Strong Ha-emitters during the Epoch of Reionization with JWST

P. Rinaldi, K. I. Caputi, E. Iani +40

By using the ultra-deep \textit{JWST}/MIRI image at 5.6 in the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, we constrain the role of strong H-emitters (HAEs) during Cosmic Reionization at $z…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

MIDIS: JWST NIRCam and MIRI unveil the stellar population properties of Ly-emitters and Lyman-Break galaxies at z ~ 3-7

Edoardo Iani, Karina I. Caputi, Pierluigi Rinaldi +29

We study the stellar population properties of 182 spectroscopically-confirmed (MUSE/VLT) Lyman- emitters (LAEs) and 450 photometrically-selected Lyman-Break galaxies (LBGs) at z…