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Dynamical Evolution of Galactic Center Star Cluster and Importance of Stellar Collisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Hyung Mok Lee
Hyung Mok Lee*
Affiliation:
Pusan University, Department of Earth Sciences, Pusan 609-735, Korea

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The Galactic Center (GC) star cluster is a compact stellar system. The surface brightness distribution at infrared has core radius of about 0.8 pc (Rieke & Lebovsky 1987) when the contribution from bright stars are removed. On the other hand number counts of infrared sources in the high resolution speckle image by Eckart et al. (1993) at 2.2 μm gives 0.15 pc for the core radius of the surface density distribution. At present it is not clear which is more appropriate for the mass distribution.

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Chapter 3: What is the Nature of the Center of the Galaxy?
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 169: Unsolved Problems of the Milky Way , 1996 , pp. 215 - 223
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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