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\title{High Spectral Resolution Observations of the Massive Stars in the Galactic Center}

\shorttitle{Massive Stars in the GC}

\author{Angelle Tanner\altaffilmark{1},
Mark Morris\altaffilmark{5}, E. E. Becklin\altaffilmark{5}, Ian S. McLean\altaffilmark{5}, \\
Andrea M. Gilbert\altaffilmark{6}, James R. Graham\altaffilmark{7}, \\
James E. Larkin\altaffilmark{5}, N. A. Levenson\altaffilmark{8},
Harry I. Teplitz\altaffilmark{9}}
\altaffiltext{2}{Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 }
\altaffiltext{3}{Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006, Madrid, Spain}
\altaffiltext{4}{Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822}
\altaffiltext{5}{Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095}
\altaffiltext{6}{Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstr. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany}
\altaffiltext{7}{Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, 601 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3411}
\altaffiltext{8}{Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, 600 Rose Street, Lexington, Kentucky, 40506-0055}
\altaffiltext{9}{Spitzer Science Center, MS 220-6, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125}
\authoremail{angelle.tanner@jpl.nasa.gov}

\begin{abstract}


We present high-resolution near-infrared spectra, obtained with the NIRSPEC spectrograph 
on the W. M. Keck II Telescope, of a collection of hot, massive stars 
within the central
25 arcseconds of the Galactic center. We have identified a total of twenty-one emission-line stars, 
seven of which are new radial velocity detections with five of those being classified
as He I emission-line stars for the first time. 
These stars fall into two categories based on their spectral properties: 1) those with
narrow $\lambda\lambda$ 2.112, 2.113 $\micron$ \ion{He}{1} doublet absorption lines, and 
2) those with broad 2.058 $\micron$ \ion{He}{1} emission lines.
These data have the highest spectral resolution ever obtained for these sources 
and, as a result, both components
of the absorption doublet are separately resolved for the first time.
We use these spectral features to measure radial velocities.
The majority of the measured radial velocities have
relative errors of 20 \kms, smaller than those previously obtained with proper-motion or radial
velocity measurements for similar stellar samples in the Galactic center. The radial 
velocities estimated from the
\ion{He}{1} absorption doublet are more robust than those previously estimated from the 
2.058 $\micron$ emission line,
since they do not suffer from confusion due to emission from the surrounding ISM.
Using this velocity information, we agree with previous stellar velocity studies 
that the stars are orbiting in a somewhat coherent 
manner but are not as defined into a disk or disks as previously thought. Finally, 
multi-epoch radial
velocity measurements for IRS 16NE show a change in its velocity presumably due
to an unseen stellar companion.

\end{abstract}

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