Star Formation at the Galactic Center

1988 ◽  
pp. 345-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia J. Rieke
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Galactic Center

scholarly journals Nuclear Activity and the Conditions of Star-formation at the Galactic Center

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Eckart ◽  
Monica Valencia-S. ◽  
B. Shahzamanian ◽  
M. Zajacek ◽  
L. Moser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Nuclear Activity

scholarly journals The Galactic Center compared with nuclei of nearby galaxies

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (S322) ◽  
pp. 245-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francoise Combes
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Molecular Outflows ◽  
Star Formation Activity ◽  
Nearby Galaxies

AbstractUnderstanding our Galactic Center is easier with insights from nearby galactic nuclei. Both the star formation activity in nuclear gas disks, driven by bars and nuclear bars, and the fueling of low-luminosity AGN, followed by feedback of jets, driving molecular outflows, were certainly present in our Galactic Center, which appears now quenched. Comparisons and diagnostics are reviewed, in particular of m = 2 and m = 1 modes, lopsidedness, different disk orientations, and fossil evidences of activity and feedback.

scholarly journals 7.13. The Sgr A East HII complex and associated features

1998 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 317-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keven I. Uchida ◽  
Mark R. Morris ◽  
Gene Serabyn ◽  
David Fong ◽  
Thomas Meseroll
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Massive Star ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
H Ii Regions ◽  
Expansion Time ◽  
Sgr A ◽  
Relativistic Particles

The Sgr A East H ii complex consists of 4 compact H ii regions situated just east of and following, in an arc pattern, the edge of the Sgr A East nonthermal shell. Located between the arc of H ii regions and the nonthermal shell is a dense molecular ridge – presumably compressed – known as the “50 km/s cloud”. The hypothesis that these H ii regions delineate massive star formation provoked by the rapid expansion of Sgr A East into the molecular cloud is problematical because of the mismatch of the shell expansion and star formation time scales. We therefore examine the alternative hypothesis that Sgr A East is a quasi-static or slowly expanding structure fed from within by the release of relativistic particles from sources at or near the nucleus. The elongation of SgrA East along the Galactic plane is ascribed to the shear inherent in the velocity field this close to the Galactic center (GC). In this proceeding we discuss our ongoing efforts to model the effects of shear in detail, using the elongation of Sgr A East to constrain its expansion time scale.

M supergiants and star formation at the galactic center

1982 ◽  
Vol 263 ◽  
pp. 736 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Lebofsky ◽  
G. H. Rieke ◽  
A. T. Tokunaga
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Galactic Center

scholarly journals Star Formation in the Galactic Center

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (S322) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Kauffmann
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Molecular Clouds ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Density Gradients

AbstractResearch on Galactic Center star formation is making great advances, in particular due to new data from interferometers spatially resolving molecular clouds in this environment. These new results are discussed in the context of established knowledge about the Galactic Center. Particular attention is paid to suppressed star formation in the Galactic Center and how it might result from shallow density gradients in molecular clouds.

scholarly journals Metallicity studies of the Galactic center: evidence for a top-heavy star formation history?

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S303) ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
Francisco Najarro ◽  
Diego de la Fuente ◽  
Tom R. Geballe ◽  
Don F. Figer
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Massive Star ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Massive Stars ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
Test Bed ◽  
Formation History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Stellar Properties

AbstractThe Galactic center (GC) region hosts three of the most massive resolved young clusters in the Local Group and constitutes a test bed for studying the star formation history of the region and inferring the possibility of a top-heavy scenario. Further, recent detection of a large number of apparently isolated massive stars within the inner 80 pc of the Galactic center has raised fundamental questions regarding massive star formation in a such a dense and harsh environment. Noting that most of the isolated massive stars have spectral analogs in the Quintuplet cluster, we have undertaken a combined analysis of the infrared spectra of both selected Quintuplet stars and the isolated objects using Gemini spectroscopy. We present preliminary results, aiming at α-elements versus iron abundances, stellar properties, ages and radial velocities which will differentiate the top-heavy and star-formation scenarios.

scholarly journals The Massive stellar Population at the Galactic Center

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S329) ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
Francisco Najarro ◽  
Diego de la Fuente ◽  
Tom R. Geballe ◽  
Don F. Figer ◽  
D. John Hillier
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Massive Star ◽  
Stellar Population ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Galactic Center ◽  
Spectroscopic Studies ◽  
Star Formation History ◽  
Stellar Content ◽  
Formation History

AbstractWe present results from our ongoing infrared spectroscopic studies of the massive stellar content at the Center of the Milky Way. This region hosts a large number of apparently isolated massive stars as well as three of the most massive resolved young clusters in the Local Group. Our survey seeks to infer the presence of a possible top-heavy recent star formation history and to test massive star formation channels: clusters vs isolation.

scholarly journals Star Formation at the Galactic Center

2009 ◽  
Vol 121 (880) ◽  
pp. 585-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Fatuzzo ◽  
Fulvio Melia
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
Galactic Center
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