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A "Light," Centrally-Concentrated Milky Way Halo?
Valery Rashkov, Annalisa Pillepich, Alis J. Deason +4
We discuss a novel approach to "weighing" the Milky Way dark matter halo, one that combines the latest samples of halo stars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with…
A Population of Relic Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Halo of the Milky Way
Valery Rashkov, Piero Madau
If "seed" central black holes were common in the subgalactic building blocks that merged to form present-day massive galaxies, then relic intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) shou…
Direct Gravitational Imaging of Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Extragalactic Halos
Kaiki Taro Inoue, Valery Rashkov, Joseph Silk +1
A galaxy halo may contain a large number of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) with masses in the range of 10^{2-6} solar mass. We propose to directly detect these IMBHs by obse…