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Origin of the S star cluster

Presentation #201.01 in the session “Clusters”.

Published onJun 01, 2021
Origin of the S star cluster

Our Galactic center contains a cluster of young B stars ~10 mpc from its central supermassive black hole. Recent observations suggest these stars are remnants of tidally disrupted binaries from a larger-scale disk. I will explain how the disk can produce binary disruptions within its ~5 Myr lifetime, how the eccentricity and mass distribution of the S stars can be reproduced in the binary disruption paradigm, and how these disruptions can produce a conical stream of hypervelocity stars.

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