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1. ``Cataclysmic Variables in Globular Clusters, the Galactic Center, and Local Space''
   Craig O. Heinke Ashley J. Ruiter Michael P. Muno Krzysztof Belczynski (coh5z@virginia.edu)
   Paper: Proceedings of "A Population Explosion", R. [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Jan 9 09:54:02 MST 2008 )

2. ``The distance to the Galactic Centre based on Population ii Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars''
   M.A.T. Groenewegen A. Udalski & G. Bono (groen@ster.kuleuven.be)
   Paper: A&A accepted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Fri Jan 18 14:04:35 MST 2008 )

3. ``Spectral imaging of the Sagittarius B2 region in multiple 3-mm molecular lines with the Mopra telescope''
   P. A. Jones, M. G. Burton, M. R. Cunningham, K. M. Menten, P. Schilke, A. Belloche, S. Leurini, J. Ott, A. J. Walsh (pjones@phys.unsw.edu.au)
   Paper: MNRAS, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Jan 23 18:19:29 MST 2008 )

4. ``Hypervelocity Stars: From the Galactic Center to the Halo''
   Scott J. Kenyon, Benjamin C. Bromley, Margaret J. Geller, Warren R. Brown (kenyon@cfa.harvard.edu)
   Paper: ApJ, submitted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Thu Jan 24 08:18:57 MST 2008 )

5. ``Tracing shocks and photodissociation in the Galactic center region''
   Sergio Martín, M.A. Requena-Torres, J. Martín-Pintado, R. Mauersberger (smartin@cfa.harvard.edu)
   Paper: ApJ accepted [Abstract, Tex] (Thu Jan 24 09:51:21 MST 2008 )

6. `` LMC origin of the hyper-velocity star HE 0437-5439. Beyond the supermassive black hole paradigm''
   N. Przybilla, M. F. Nieva, U. Heber, M. Firnstein, K. Butler, R. Napiwotzki, H. Edelmann (przybilla@sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de)
   Paper: A&A, accepted [Abstract, Tex, Paper] (Tue Jan 29 05:04:49 MST 2008 )

7. ``GBT Multiwavelength Survey of the Galactic Center Region''
   C. J. Law, F. Yusef-Zadeh, W. D. Cotton, and R. J. Maddalena (caseyjlaw@gmail.com)
   Paper: ApJS, July 2008 , in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Fri Feb 1 02:41:56 MST 2008 )

8. ``Tracing intermediate-mass black holes in the Galactic Centre''
   U. Löckmann and H. Baumgardt (uloeck@astro.uni-bonn.de)
   Paper: MNRAS, 384, 323-330, 2008 [Abstract, Tex, Paper, EPrint-Server] (Mon Feb 11 06:01:27 MST 2008 )

9. ``Linearly and Circularly Polarized Emission in Sagittarius A*''
   Lei Huang, Siming Liu, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Mike J. Cai, Hui Li, and Christopher L. Fryer (muduri@shao.ac.cn)
   Paper: ApJL, accepted Feb 2008 [Abstract, Tex, Paper, EPrint-Server] (Tue Feb 26 17:11:37 MST 2008 )

10. ``IRS 13N: a new comoving group of sources at the Galactic Center''
    K. Muzic, R. Schödel, A. Eckart, L. Meyer, A. Zensus (muzic@ph1.uni-koeln.de)
    Paper: A&A, 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex] (Fri Mar 7 02:55:32 MST 2008 )

11. ``On a Source of Systematic Error in Absolute Measurement of Galactocentric Distance from Solving for the Stellar Orbit Around Sgr A*''
    Igor' I. Nikiforov (nii@dyna.astro.spbu.ru)
    Paper: Dynamics of Galaxies, Proceedings of the [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Tue Mar 11 04:46:35 MDT 2008 )

12. ``Time Variability of the Neutral Iron Lines from the Sgr B2 Region and its Implication of a Past Outburst of Sgr A^*''
    Tatsuya Inui, Katsuji Koyama, Hironori Matsumoto and Takeshi Go Tsuru (inuit@cr.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
    Paper: PASJ, 2008, accepted [Abstract, Tex] (Tue Mar 11 10:16:51 MDT 2008 )

13. ``Odin observations of the Galactic centre in the 118-GHz band. Upper limit to the O_2 abundance''
    Aa. Sandqvist, B. Larsson, \AA . Hjalmarson, P. Bergman, P. Bernath, U. Frisk, M. Olberg, L. Pagani, L.M. Ziurys (aage@astro.su.se)
    Paper: A&A, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Mar 12 06:52:31 MDT 2008 )

14. ``Massive Star Formation in the Galactic Center''
    D. F. Figer et al. (cmtpci@cis.rit.edu)
    Paper: [Abstract, Tex, Paper, EPrint-Server] (Wed Mar 12 11:08:51 MDT 2008 )

15. ``Radial Velocities of Stars in the Galactic Center''
    Qingfeng Zhu, Rolf P. Kudritzki, Donald F. Figer, Francisco Najarro, David Merritt (qxzpci@cis.rit.edu)
    Paper: ApJ, July 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Mar 12 14:38:42 MDT 2008 )

16. ``A Wide-area VLA Continuum Survey near the Galactic Center at 6 and 20 cm Wavelengths''
    C. J. Law, F. Yusef-Zadeh, W. D. Cotton (caseyjlaw@gmail.com)
    Paper: ApJS, August 2008 , in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Fri Mar 14 01:12:20 MDT 2008 )

17. ``The Path to Buried Treasure: Paving the Way to the FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey with IR and X-ray Observations''
    Reba M. Bandyopadhyay, Stephen S. Eikenberry, Curtis Dewitt Andrew J. Gosling Michael P. Muno and the F2GCS Team (reba@astro.ufl.edu)
    Paper: AIP Conf. Proc., 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Mar 24 10:18:43 MDT 2008 )

18. ``FLAMINGOS-2: A Near-IR Multi-Object Spectrometer Ideal for Surveying the Galactic Center''
    S. Nicholas Raines, Stephen S. Eikenberry, and Reba M. Bandyopadhyay (reba@astro.ufl.edu)
    Paper: AIP Conf. Proc., 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Mar 24 11:39:14 MDT 2008 )

19. ``The FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey''
    Stephen S. Eikenberry (reba@astro.ufl.edu)
    Paper: AIP Conf. Proc., 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Mar 24 11:41:04 MDT 2008 )

20. ``Non-uniform model for the synchrotron radiation of SgrA* and other low-luminosity galactic nuclei''
    V. I. Slysh (vslysh@asc.rssi.ru)
    Paper: Astronomy reports, May 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex] (Tue Mar 25 14:28:42 MDT 2008 )

21. ``Limits on the Position Wander of Sgr A*''
    Mark J. Reid, Avery E. Broderick, Abraham Loeb, Mareki Honma, Andreas Brunthaler (reid@cfa.harvard.edu)
    Paper: ApJ, in press [Abstract, Tex] (Fri Mar 28 14:03:36 MDT 2008 )

22. ``Very Large Array Observations of Galactic Center OH 1720 MHz Masers in Sagittarius A East and in the Circumnuclear Disk''
    Loránt O. Sjouwerman Ylva M. Pihlström (lsjouwer@nrao.edu)
    Paper: ApJ, accepted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Thu Apr 3 08:06:47 MDT 2008 )

23. ``Spherical Accretion with Anisotropic Thermal Conduction''
    P. Sharma, E. Quataert, J. M. Stone (psharma@astro.berkeley.edu)
    Paper: MNRAS submitted [Abstract, Tex, Paper] (Tue Apr 15 17:29:56 MDT 2008 )

24. ``X-Ray Observations of the Sagittarius D HII Region toward the Galactic Center with Suzaku''
    Makoto Sawada, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Katsuji Koyama, Casey J. Law, Takeshi Go Tsuru, Yoshiaki Hyodo (sawada@cr.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
    Paper: PASJ, in press [Abstract, Tex, Paper, EPrint-Server] (Fri May 16 02:17:29 MDT 2008 )

25. ``First VLTI infrared spectro-interferometry on GCIRS 7''
    J.-U. Pott, A. Eckart, A. Glindemann, S. Kraus, R. Schödel, A. M. Ghez, J. Woillez, G. Weigelt, (jpott@keck.hawaii.edu)
    Paper: A&A, 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex, Paper, EPrint-Server] (Wed May 28 14:30:29 MDT 2008 )

26. ``Discovery and Interpretation of an X-ray Period in the Galactic Cent= er Source CXOGC J174536.1-285638''
    Valerie J. Mikles Stephen S. Eikenberry Reba M. Bandyopadhyay Michael P. Muno (reba@astro.ufl.edu)
    Paper: ApJ, 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Jul 9 15:26:59 MDT 2008 )

27. ``On the Formation of Compact Stellar Disks Around Sgr A*''
    Mark Wardle Farhad Yusef-Zadeh (wardle@ics.mq.edu.au)
    Paper: ApJ Letters, in press [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Mon Jul 14 07:35:33 MDT 2008 )

28. ``Two extremely luminous WN stars in the Galactic center with circumstellar emission from dust and gas''
    A. Barniske, L. M. Oskinova, and W.-R. Hamann (lida@astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de)
    Paper: A&A 486/3, 2008, in press [Abstract, Tex, Paper] (Wed Jul 16 04:08:56 MDT 2008 )

29. ``Origin of the S-Stars in the Galactic Center''
    Ulf Löckmann, Holger Baumgardt, and Pavel Kroupa (uloeck@astro.uni-bonn.de)
    Paper: ApJL, 2008, accepted [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Jul 16 06:33:47 MDT 2008 )

30. ``The Galactic Center as a laboratory for extreme mass ratio gravitational wave source dynamics''
    Tal Alexander (tal.alexander@weizmann.ac.il)
    Paper: Invited talk 2nd Kolkata conf. on BHs [Abstract, Tex, EPrint-Server] (Wed Jul 16 07:52:46 MDT 2008 )

31. `` Dynamical evolution of the young stars in the Galactic center''
    Hagai. B. Perets, Alessia Gualandris, David Merritt and Tal Alexander (hagai.perets@weizmann.ac.il)
    Paper: Central Kiloparsec conference proceedings, 2008 [Abstract, Tex] (Wed Jul 16 23:03:38 MDT 2008 )