The shortest-known-period star orbiting our galaxy's supermassive black hole

Science

Volumn 338, Issue 6103, 2012, Pages 84-87

  Meyer, L ^a   Ghez, A M ^a   Schodel R ^b   Yelda, S ^a   Boehle, A ^a   Lu, J R ^c   Do, T ^d,e   Morris, M R ^a   Becklin, E E ^a   Matthews, K ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; DATA SET; GRAVITY FIELD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE; THEORY;

EID: 84867192289     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1225506     Document Type: Article

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