Collisional formation of very massive stars in dense clusters
Friday, September 3rd, 2010by Moeckel, Nickolas and Clarke, Cathie J.
8 pages, submitted to MNRAS. Includes revisions per referee’s comments
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘stellar dynamics’ Category
Tidal breakup of binary stars at the Galactic Center. II. Hydrodynamic simulations
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010by Antonini, Fabio and Lombardi, James C. and Merritt, David
20 pages, 16 figures
Croatian Black Hole School 2010 lecture notes on IMBHs in GCs
Friday, August 27th, 2010by 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 )
Nuclear Star Clusters from Clustered Star Formation
Thursday, August 19th, 2010The Orbital Structure of Triaxial Galaxies with Figure Rotation
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Deibel, Alex T. and Valluri, Monica and Merritt, David
22 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to ApJ August 2010. High resolution version available at http://astro.lsa.umich.edu/~mvalluri/preprints.html
Widespread presence of shallow cusps in the surface-brightness profile of globular clusters
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Vesperini, Enrico and Trenti, Michele
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters
Testing GR with Galactic-centre Stars
Monday, August 9th, 2010by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit
Contributed talk in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies”, Shanghai 19-23/10/2009. To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan (4 pages, 2 figures)
Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics
Thursday, July 29th, 2010by Alexander, Tal
Invited overview lecture in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies” (Shanghai 19-23/10/2009). To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris (12 pp 5 fig)
Towards relativistic orbit fitting of Galactic center stars and pulsars
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit and Merritt, David
20 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the ApJ
The Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Higher order moment models of dense stellar systems: Applications to the modeling of the stellar velocity distribution function
Friday, June 18th, 2010by Schneider, Justus and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome
Self consistent model for the evolution of eccentric massive black hole binaries in stellar environments: implications for gravitational wave observations
Friday, June 18th, 2010by Sesana, A.
15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters
Friday, June 18th, 2010Resonant relaxation and the warp of the stellar disc in the Galactic centre
Friday, June 4th, 2010A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri
Monday, March 1st, 2010by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Young massive star clusters
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by 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
The Eccentric Disc Instability: Dependency on Background Stellar Cluster
Monday, February 8th, 2010by Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Mass Segregation in the Galactic Centre
Monday, February 8th, 2010by Hopman, Clovis and Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Stellar disc — dynamical evolution in a perturbed potential
Thursday, February 4th, 2010by Subr, Ladislav
“The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
The Impact of Stellar Collisions in the Galactic Center
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010by Davies, M. B. and Church, R. P. and Malmberg, D. and Nzoke, S. and Dale, J. and Freitag, M.
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Dynamical Models of the Galactic Center
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Merritt, David
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures
Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic Centre
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009by Loeckmann, Ulf and Baumgardt, Holger and Kroupa, Pavel
MNRAS, accepted, 8 pages, 4 figures
On the spatial distribution and the origin of hypervelocity stars
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009On strong mass segregation around a massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Monday, October 19th, 2009by Preto, Miguel and Amaro-Seoane, Pau
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJL
The orbit of the star S2 around SgrA* from VLT and Keck data
Monday, October 19th, 2009by Gillessen, S. and Eisenhauer, F. and Fritz, T. K. and Bartko, H. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Pfuhl, O. and Ott, T. and Genzel, R.
submitted to ApJL
Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves and Detection
Monday, October 12th, 2009by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto and Hoffman, Loren and Benacquista, Matthew and Eichhorn, Christoph and Makino, Junichiro and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS
Compact Binaries in Star Clusters I – Black Hole Binaries Inside Globular Clusters
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009by Downing, J. M. B. and Benacquista, M. J. and Giersz, M. and Spurzem, R.
18 pages, 5 Tables, 10 Figures, Submitted to MNRAS
Detection of IMBHs with ground-based gravitational wave observatories: A biography of a binary of black holes, from birth to death
Monday, October 5th, 2009by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Santamaria, Lucia
Submitted to ApJ; abstract abridged, figure 1 has a lower resolution
Evidence for two populations of Galactic globular clusters from the ratio of their half-mass to Jacobi radii
Thursday, October 1st, 2009by Baumgardt, Holger and Parmentier, Genevieve and Gieles, Mark and Vesperini, Enrico
8 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS in press
