The small retrograde mass precession of S2 implies that the inner stellar cluster around Sgr A* must be heavily depleted by destructive stellar collisions, especially if binary capture rates are above a few 10^-6 per year.
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The S2 orbit and tidally disrupted binaries: indications for collisional depletion in the Galactic center
The small retrograde mass precession of S2 implies that the inner stellar cluster around Sgr A* must be heavily depleted by destructive stellar collisions, especially if binary capture rates are above a few 10^-6 per year.