The orbital motion of the Arches cluster: Clues on cluster formation near the Galactic Center

Astrophysics and Space Science

Volumn 324, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-140

  Stolte, Andrea ^a   Ghez, Andrea ^a   Morris, Mark ^a   Lu, Jessica ^a   Brandner, Wolfgang ^b   Matthews, Keith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galactic center; Open clusters: individual: Arches; Techniques: adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955029730     PISSN: 0004640X     EISSN: 1572946X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-009-0086-7     Document Type: Article

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