Scientific potential for interferometric observations of the Galactic center

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4835, Issue , 2002, Pages 12-21

  Eckart, Andreas ^a   Mouawad, Nelly ^a   Krips, Melanie ^a   Straubmeier, Christian ^a   Bertram, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black Holes; Galactic Center; Infrared interferometry; Lensing; Stellar cusps; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ORBITS;

GALACTIC CENTER;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0037740960     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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