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CAN STAR–DISK COLLISIONS EXPLAIN THE MISSING RED GIANTS PROBLEM IN THE GALACTIC CENTER?
Observations have revealed a relative paucity of red giant (RG) stars within the central 0.5pc in the Galactic Center (GC). Motivated by this finding we investigate the hypothesis that collisions of stars with a fragmenting accretion disk are responsible for the observed dearth of evolved stars. We use 3-dimensional hydrodynamic …