Revisiting hypervelocity stars after Gaia DR2
Hypervelocity stars are intriguing rare objects travelling at speeds large enough to be unbound from the Milky Way. Several mechanisms have been proposed for producing them, including the interaction of the Galaxy’s supermassive black hole (SMBH) with a binary; rapid mass-loss from a companion to a...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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