Is the Nuclear Star Cluster a Bulge Fossil Fragment?

arXiv:2609.02230 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, contribution to IAU Symposium 405, Traversing the Galactic Center in Space and Time

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Metallicity — 31× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Blanco DECam Bulge Survey — 3× in this paper
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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