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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…
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…