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Special Colloquium |
Dr. Sebastiano von Fellenberg
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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
In this talk, I will review the current landscape of infrared
observations of the Galactic Center, with a particular focus on three
areas: (1) the accretion flow around Sgr A*, (2) the stars on the
closest orbits around the black hole, which probe its mass and spin as
well as the surrounding extended mass distribution, and (3) current and
future observations of the nuclear star cluster as a whole. I will
highlight recent advances in Galactic Center science enabled by JWST
and
GRAVITY+, and provide an outlook on what future observations with the
ELT will reveal.