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The Galactic Center compared with nuclei of nearby galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2017

Francoise Combes
Francoise Combes*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, LERMA, College de France, CNRS, PSL, Sorbonne Univ. UPMC, F-75014, Paris, France email: francoise.combes@obspm.fr
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Abstract

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Understanding our Galactic Center is easier with insights from nearby galactic nuclei. Both the star formation activity in nuclear gas disks, driven by bars and nuclear bars, and the fueling of low-luminosity AGN, followed by feedback of jets, driving molecular outflows, were certainly present in our Galactic Center, which appears now quenched. Comparisons and diagnostics are reviewed, in particular of m = 2 and m = 1 modes, lopsidedness, different disk orientations, and fossil evidences of activity and feedback.

Keywords

Galaxy: center–Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics–Galaxy: nucleus–galaxies: active–galaxies: jets

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