Fig. 8.

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Compilation of orientations of angular momentum vectors of different dynamical structures in the GC. The colored tori illustrate the definitions of the angles. Inclinations between 0° and 90° correspond to counterclockwise motion on the sky (bottom half) and 90 ° −180° to clockwise motion (upper half). The vectors of the clockwise stellar disk (shown are the features called CW1 and CW2 in von Fellenberg et al. 2022; see also Paumard et al. 2006; Lu et al. 2008), of the Sgr A* flares (this work), and of the gas cloud G2 (Gillessen et al. 2011) are very close to each other. Other features shown are the rotation of the Galaxy, as well as the Circumnuclear Disk (CND) in the GC and the Eastern and Northern Arm gas features. The orientation of the flare angular momentum vector is consistent with the clockwise disk features.
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