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SCHEDULE:
Jan 17th: Organization
Jan 24th: Observational introduction (John Bally)
Jan 31st: The inner 100pc (molecular gas and stars) (Adam)
Origins of Arches cluster mass function (Dib et al.)
Present day Arches cluser MF (Portegies-Zwart et al.)
Observations
of the Arches cluster MF (Kim et al.)
Physical
conditions of molecular gas in GC (Nagai et al.)
A&A
GC review (Morris & Serabyn)
Feb 7th: X-ray & Gamma ray properties (Great Annihilator) (Peter)
Annihilation Emission from the Galactic Black
Hole (Cheng et al.)
A faint discrete source origin for the highly
ionized iron emission from the Galactic Centre region (Wang et al.)
The sky distribution of positronium
annihilation continuum emission measured with SPI/INTEGRAL (Weidenspointner et al.)
Feb 14th: The non-thermal filaments, SNR, HII regions (Jason)
The Galactic Center
Magnetosphere (Morris)
Turbulent Origin of
the Galactic Center Magnetic Field: Nonthermal Radio Filaments (Boldyrev and
Yusef-Zadeh)
New Nonthermal
Filaments at the Galactic Center: Are They Tracing a Globally Ordered Magnetic
Field? (LaRosa et al.)
Feb 21st: Sgr A* and its immediate environment, WR stars, mini-spiral ring (Ting)
IRS 16 SW: A New Comoving Group of Young Stars in the Central Parsec
of the Milky Way (Lu et al.)
HCN and HCO+ Observations of the Galactic Circumnuclear Disk
(Christopher et al.)
Stellar Orbits around the Galactic Center Black Hole
(Ghez et al.)
Feb 28th: Compact objects and stars in the Galactic Center (Devin)
Stars and singularities: Stellar phenomena near a massive black hole
(Alexander)
A Cluster of Black Holes at the Galactic Center (Miralda-Escude & Gould)
Stellar Processes Near the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic
Center (Alexander)
Stellar remnants in galactic nuclei: mass segregation (Freitag et
al.)
Mar 6th: Accretion introduction (Mitch)
March 13th: Accretion & fueling (or not) of the black hole (Sam)
Polarized NIR and X-ray flares from Sagittarius A* (Eckart et
al.)
Simultaneous Chandra, CSO and VLA Observations of Sgr A*:
The Nature of Flaring Activity (Yusef-Zadeh et al.)
The Variability of Polarized Radiation from Sagittarius A*
(Yusef-Zadeh et al.)
March 20th: Lessons from the Galactic Center for AGN and supermassive black hole growth (Phil)
Starbursts near supermassive black holes: young stars
in the Galactic Centre, and gravitational waves in LISA band (Levin)
March 27th: Spring Break (no seminar)
Apr 3rd: Discussion of possible observing proposal
Apr 10th: Star formation and stellar wind accretion in the Galactic Center (Jorge)
Galactic Centre stellar winds and Sgr A* accretion
(Cuadra et al.)
Apr 17th: Discussion of connection with hypervelocity stars
Hypervelocity A and B Stars Should Be Slow Rotators (Hansen)
Dynamical and evolutionary constraints on the nature and origin of hypervelocity stars
(Perets)
'Slow' and Fast Rotators among Hypervelocity Stars (Lopez-Morales & Bonanos)
Apr 24th: Juthika
The `missing' young stellar objects in the central parsec of the Galaxy: evidence for
star formation in a massive accretion disc and a top-heavy initial mass function (Nayakshin & Sunyaev)
Simulations of star formation in a gaseous disc around Sgr A* -
a failed active galactic nucleus (Nayakshin, Cuadra & Springel)
Star formation in the GC: observational constraints and theory (Nayaksin)
May 1st: Seth
A Constant Spectral Index for Sagittarius A* during Infrared/X-Ray
Intensity Variations (Hornstein et al.)
Variations in the Spectral Slope of Sagittarius A* during a
Near-Infrared Flare (Gillessen et al.)
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