Making Bright Giants Invisible At The Galactic Centre

Understand

Current observations of the Galactic Center (GC) seem to display a core-like distribution of bright stars from $\sim 5"$ inwards.

• On the other hand, we observe young, massive stars at the GC, with roughly 20-50\% of them in a disc, mostly in the region where the bright giants appear to be lacking.
• In a previous publication we put the idea forward that the missing stars are deeply connected to the presence of this disc.
• The progenitor of the stellar disc is very likely to have been a gaseous disc that at some point fragmented and triggered star formation.