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Archive for the ‘globular clusters’ Category

Collisional formation of very massive stars in dense clusters

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0283

by Moeckel, Nickolas and Clarke, Cathie J.
8 pages, submitted to MNRAS. Includes revisions per referee’s comments

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The Globular Cluster/Central Black Hole Connection in Galaxies

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4748

by Harris, Gretchen L. H. and Harris, William E.
7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Croatian Black Hole School 2010 lecture notes on IMBHs in GCs

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4477

by Pasquato, Mario
These lecture notes are based on the series of invited lectures on IMBHs I delivered at the June 2010 Croatian Black Hole School ( organizer: Jarah Evslin, site: http://antimodave.jimdo.com )

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Widespread presence of shallow cusps in the surface-brightness profile of globular clusters

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2771

by Vesperini, Enrico and Trenti, Michele
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters

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Higher order moment models of dense stellar systems: Applications to the modeling of the stellar velocity distribution function

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.1365

by Schneider, Justus and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome

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MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.3326

by Konstantinidis, Simos and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
24 pages, 28 figures

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A correlation between central supermassive black holes and the globular cluster systems of early-type galaxies

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.0137

by Burkert, Andreas and Tremaine, Scott
13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Early Globular Clusters

Friday, March 19th, 2010

arXiv:1003.3470

by Vesperini, Enrico and McMillan, Stephen L. W. and D’Ercole, Annibale and D’Antona, Francesca
4 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters

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A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri

Monday, March 1st, 2010

arXiv:1002.5037

by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Young massive star clusters

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1961

by Zwart, Simon Portegies and McMillan, Steve and Gieles, Mark
Only 88 pages. To be published in ARAA. Final version to be submitted on Friday 12 February

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X-Ray Localization of the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster G1 with Chandra

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.3944

by Kong, A. K. H. and Heinke, C. O. and Di Stefano, R. and Barmby, P. and Lewin, W. H. G. and Primini, F. A.
5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJL

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Compact Binaries in Star Clusters I – Black Hole Binaries Inside Globular Clusters

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0546

by Downing, J. M. B. and Benacquista, M. J. and Giersz, M. and Spurzem, R.
18 pages, 5 Tables, 10 Figures, Submitted to MNRAS

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Detection of IMBHs with ground-based gravitational wave observatories: A biography of a binary of black holes, from birth to death

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0254

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Santamaria, Lucia
Submitted to ApJ; abstract abridged, figure 1 has a lower resolution

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Evidence for two populations of Galactic globular clusters from the ratio of their half-mass to Jacobi radii

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

arXiv:0909.5696

by Baumgardt, Holger and Parmentier, Genevieve and Gieles, Mark and Vesperini, Enrico
8 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS in press

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Binaries of massive black holes in rotating clusters: Dynamics, gravitational waves, detection and the role of eccentricity

Friday, August 7th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0755

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Eichhorn, Christoph and Porter, Ed and Spurzem, Rainer
21 pages, 12 figs, to appear in MNRAS, abstract abridged for arxiv

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Shrinking the Braneworld: Black Hole in a Globular Cluster

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5351

by Gnedin, Oleg Y. and Maccarone, Thomas J. and Psaltis, Dimitrios and Zepf, Stephen E.

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Globular Clusters and Satellite Galaxies: Companions to the Milky Way

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5370

by Forbes, Duncan A. and Kroupa, Pavel and Metz, Manuel and Spitler, Lee
3 pages, published in Mercury vol. 38, No. 2, page 24. See http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/dforbes/mw.pdf for a full colour version with figures

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On the dissolution of star clusters in the Galactic centre. I. Circular orbits

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4459

by Ernst, Andreas and Just, Andreas and Spurzem, Rainer
18 pages, 20 figures; accepted by MNRAS

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A second black hole candidate in a M31 globular cluster is identified with XMM-Newton

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

arXiv:0905.3278

by Barnard, R. and Kolb, U.
Accepted for publication in MRAS letters. Four pages, three figures

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Gravitational waves from eccentric intermediate-mass black hole binaries

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0901.0604

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Miller, Cole and Freitag, Marc
Accepted for publication by ApJ Letts

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