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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>=…
Young Massive Clusters
Donald F. Figer
Over the past ten years, there has been a revolution in our understanding of massive young stellar clusters in the Galaxy. Initially, there were no known examples having masses $>1…