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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…
astro-ph2001
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…
astro-ph2001
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…