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Jet interactions with a giant molecular cloud in the Galactic centre and ejection of hypervelocity stars

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arxiv 1209.1175 v1 pith:LANFFYWP submitted 2012-09-06 astro-ph.CO astro-ph.GA

Jet interactions with a giant molecular cloud in the Galactic centre and ejection of hypervelocity stars

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The hypervelocity OB stars in the Milky Way Galaxy were ejected from the central regions some 10-100 million years ago. We argue that these stars, {as well as many more abundant bound OB stars in the innermost few parsecs,} were generated by the interactions of an AGN jet from the central black hole with a dense molecular cloud. Considerations of the associated energy and momentum injection have broader implications for the possible origin of the Fermi bubbles and for the enrichment of the intergalactic medium.

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