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Formation and evolution of young stars in the Galactic Center

TYPEAstrophysics Seminar
Speaker:Aleksey Generozov
Affiliation:Department of Physics, Technion
Date:17.11.2021
Time:14:30 - 15:30
Location:Lidow 620
Abstract:

The central parsec of our Galaxy contains young stars orbiting Sgr A*, a supermassive black hole. These include the isotropic S star cluster of B stars within ~0.04 pc of Sgr A*, as well as a larger disc containing O and Wolf--Rayet stars. I will discuss how the disc can form from the tidal disruption of a molecular cloud. Subsequent dynamical evolution can produce a secular gravitational instability in the disc that will put some of its stars on nearly radial orbits. Sgr A* will tidally disrupt binaries on such orbits, producing S and hypervelocity stars