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View of Milky Way Galactic centre. Background: False colour Spitzer image (NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)). Overlayed are the APOGEE DR17 (Abdurro’uf et al. 2022) NSD star passing recommended quality checks (see also Appendix C) with AK_WISE > 2 and the KMOS fields from Fritz et al. (2021). The contours show the composite best-fitting stellar densities of the NSD from Launhardt et al. (2002) and nuclear stellar cluster from Chatzopoulos et al. (2015).
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