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Yann Clénet, Daniel Rouan, Eric Gendron, and François Lacombe
THE GALACTIC CENTRE : THE LESSONS FROM AO

THE GALACTIC CENTRE : THE LESSONS FROM AO


Yann Clénet(1), Daniel Rouan(1), Eric Gendron(1), and François Lacombe(2)
1 : Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, France
2 : Mauna Kea Technologies, France


At the beginning of the 90th, many studies were tending towards the presence of a supermassive compact source at the gravitationnal centre of the Galaxy. Adaptive optics was the instrumental breakthrough that cleared up the uncertainties on the nature of the central compact source, revealing its black hole nature and its properties.

In this presentation, I will review first what Adaptive Optics have brought in our knowledge of the Galactic Centre and its supermassive black hole but also the questions still pending on the black hole emission mechanism and the central star formation history.


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LESIA, Observatoire de Paris
2006-03-16