The nuclear cluster of the Milky Way

19 Mar 2013, 09:00
25m
Ringberg

Ringberg

Ringberg Castle Schlossstraße 20 83700 Rottach-Egern Germany

Speaker

Tobias Fritz (MPE)

Description

I will present recent results for the nuclear cluster of Milky Way. Thereby, I concentrate on the old stars which dominate the mass budget. Firstly, I show a star density map of the cluster and use it to give a new estimate for its size. Secondly, I present an estimate for its mass from Jeans modeling using 23000 velocities. Finally, I relate these two properties with each other and with other nuclear clusters to conclude.

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