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astro-ph.CO2009
Are ring galaxies the ancestors of giant low surface brightness galaxies?
M. Mapelli, B. Moore
Giant low surface brightness galaxies (GLSBs), such as Malin 1, have unusually large and flat discs. Their formation is a puzzle for cosmological simulations in the cold dark matte…
astro-ph.HE2009★ 124 cited
Low metallicity and ultra-luminous X-ray sources in the Cartwheel galaxy
M. Mapelli, M. Colpi, L. Zampieri
Low-metallicity (Z <~ 0.05 Zsun) massive (>~40 Msun) stars might end their life by directly collapsing into massive black holes (BHs, 30 <~ m_BH/Msun <~ 80). More than ~10^5 massiv…