Eclipses of Nearby Millimeter-bright Galactic Nuclei by Stars in Nuclear Star Clusters

arXiv:2605.15145 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-05-14 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-05-14

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: 24 pages, 15 figures, submitted to the AAS journals; revised after the first referee report, now including intrinsic variability and measurement uncertainties

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 69× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 21× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Event Horizon Telescope — 8× in this paper
• Microlensing — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Nuclear Stellar Cluster — 1× in this paper
• Very Long Baseline Interferometry — 1× in this paper

Sources

• How Compact are the Cores of AGN? Sub-Parsec Scale Imaging with VLBI at Millimeter Wavelengths
• Ultracompact jets in AGN

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