------------------------------------------------------------------------ perets.tex IAU-246 proceedings Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the postmaster@aoc.nrao.edu for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0, required 5, autolearn=disabled) X-MailScanner-From: hagai.perets@weizmann.ac.il X-Spam-Status: No %arXiv:0710.0139 \begin{document} \title{Getting a kick out of the stellar disk(s) in the galactic center} \author{Hagai B. Perets, G\'abor Kupi \& Tal Alexander} \affiliation{Weizmann Institute of Science, POB 26, Rehovot 76100, Israel.} \begin{abstract} Recent observations of the Galactic center revealed a nuclear disk of young OB s tars, in addition to many similar outlying stars with higher eccentricities and/ or high inclinations relative to the disk (some of them possibly belonging to a second disk). Binaries in such nuclear disks, if they exist in non-negligible fr actions, could have a major role in the evolution of the disks through binary he ating of this stellar system. We suggest that interactions with/in binaries may explain some (or all) of the observed outlying young stars in the Galactic cente r. Such stars could have been formed in a disk, and later on kicked out from it through binary related interactions, similar to ejection of high velocity runawa y OB stars in young clusters throughout the galaxy. \end{abstract} \end{document}