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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Hlavní autoři: Boubert, D, Guillochon, J, Hawkins, K, Ginsburg, I, Evans, NW, Strader, J
Médium: Journal article
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Oxford University Press 2018