Galactic Centre star formation: the case of the missing gas disc

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2011-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/1109.4148v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 419 (2013) 1970-1976

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

We study the dynamical evolution of stars and gas close to the centre of the Milky Way. Any plausible means of forming the young stars observed at the Galactic Centre leaves behind a residual gas disc at ~0.01pc radii. We show that the combined effects of viscous accretion and gravitational interactions with stars do not remove the residual gas efficiently, and that a substantial gas disc, interior to the stellar disc, persists for >10Myr after the stars form. Since no such disc is currently seen at the Galactic Centre we argue that it has been accreted by the super-massive black hole. This scenario offers an attractive connection between nuclear star formation and black hole feeding, and we suggest that the "missing" gas may have been used to power Sgr A*.

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