Sagittarius a* "visual binaries": A direct measurement of the galactocentric distance

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 523, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 633-641

  Salim, Samir ^a   Gould, Andrew ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: visual; Celestial mechanics, stellar dynamics; Galaxy: center; Galaxy: fundamental parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033209972     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307756     Document Type: Article

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