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Single and Binary Black Holes and their Influence on Nuclear Structure
David Merritt
Massive central objects affect both the structure and evolution of galactic nuclei. Adiabatic growth of black holes generates power-law central density profiles with logarithmic sl…
Supermassive Black Holes
Laura Ferrarese, David Merritt
After a brief historical introduction, we summarize current efforts and accomplishments in the study of supermassive black holes.
Dynamics of Dark Matter Cusps
David Merritt, Milos Milosavljevic
Formation and disruption of dark-matter cusps are reviewed. Accumulation of baryons at the center of a halo can displace the dark matter, converting singular density cusps into low…
Relationship of Black Holes to Bulges
David Merritt, Laura Ferrarese
Supermassive black holes appear to be uniquely associated with galactic bulges. The mean ratio of black hole mass to bulge mass was until recently very uncertain, with ground based…
Galactic Mergers with Supermassive Black Holes
Fidel Cruz, David Merritt
We present the results of N-body simulations of the accretion of high-density dwarf galaxies by low-density giant galaxies. Both galaxies contain power-law central density cusps an…
Non-integrable galactic dynamics
David Merritt
Orbital and self-consistent dynamics of non-integrable galaxy models are reviewed. Topics covered include torus construction; resonances; triaxial systems with central singularitie…