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astro-ph.SR2012★ 65 cited
The Origins of Blue Stragglers and Binarity in Globular Clusters
Nathan Leigh, Christian Knigge, Alison Sills +3
(abridged) We use newly available empirical binary fractions for globular clusters to carry out a direct test of the binary evolution hypothesis, and of collisional channels that i…
astro-ph.GA2012★ 355 cited
Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks: I. Production & Growth
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, W. Lyra +1
Here we propose a mechanism for efficiently growing intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in disks around supermassive black holes. Stellar mass objects can efficiently agglomerate…