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The chemical abundances in the Galactic Centre from the atmospheres of Red Supergiants
Ben Davies, Livia Origlia, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki +3
The Galactic Centre (GC) has experienced a high degree of recent star-forming activity, as evidenced by the large number of massive stars currently residing there. The relative abu…
Metallicity in the Galactic Center: The Quintuplet cluster
Francisco Najarro, Don F. Figer, D. John Hillier +2
We present a measurement of metallicity in the Galactic center Quintuplet Cluster made using quantitative spectral analysis of two Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs). The analysis empl…
Discovery of a young massive stellar cluster near HESS J1813-178
Maria Messineo, Donald F. Figer, Ben Davies +3
We present the serendipitous discovery of a young stellar cluster in the Galactic disk at l=12deg. Using Keck/NIRSPEC, we obtained high- and low-resolution spectroscopy of several…
An infrared ring around the magnetar SGR 1900+14
S. Wachter, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, V. V. Dwarkadas +4
Magnetars are a special class of slowly rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields -- at least an order of magnitude larger than those of the "normal" radio pulsa…
Radial Velocities of Stars in the Galactic Center
Qingfeng Zhu, Rolf P. Kudritzki, Donald F. Figer +2
We present results from K band slit scan observations of a ~20''x20'' region of the Galactic center (GC) in two separate epochs more than five years apart. The high resolution (R>=…
Massive Star Formation in the Galactic Center
D. F. Figer
The Galactic center is a hotbed of star formation activity, containing the most massive star formation site and three of the most massive young star clusters in the Galaxy. Given s…