How many young star clusters exist in the galactic center?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 546, Issue 2 PART 2, 2001, Pages

  Portegies Zwart, Simon F ^a   Makino, Junichiro ^b   McMillan, Stephen L W ^c   Hut, Piet ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: individual (Arches, Quintuplet); Gravitation; Methods: n body simulations; Stars: evolution; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001014573     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318869     Document Type: Article

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