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most citedIntermediate-mass Black Holes from High Massive-star Binary Fractions in Young Star Clusters

102 citations · 333 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Connecting Cores and Black Hole Dynamics Across Scales: From Globular Clusters to Massive Ellipticals

Kyle Kremer, Newlin C. Weatherford, Philip F. Hopkins +2

The centers of massive elliptical galaxies exhibit a wide range in density profiles, from central cusps to resolved cores with order kiloparsec sizes. The cored ellipticals have be…

astro-ph.GA2025

Breaking Down the : Toward Modeling and Understanding Globular Cluster Stellar Streams in a Fully Cosmological Context

Nondh Panithanpaisal, Robyn E. Sanderson, Carl L. Rodriguez +7

Next-generation surveys are expected to uncover thousands of globular cluster (GC) stellar streams, motivating the need for a theoretical framework that produces realistic GC strea…

astro-ph.GA2025

Kinematics of Stellar Streams from Globular Clusters Depend on Black Hole Retention and Star Mass: A Selection Effect for Dark Matter Inference

Newlin C. Weatherford, Ana Bonaca

Velocity dispersion () in stellar streams from globular clusters (GCs) is sensitive to heating by Galactic substructure, including dark matter (DM) subhalos. Recent studies have…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Million Three-body Binaries Caught by Gaia

Dany Atallah, Yonadav Barry Ginat, Newlin C. Weatherford

Gaia observations have revealed over a million stellar binary candidates within ~1 kpc of the Sun, predominantly characterized by orbital separations >10^3 AU and eccentricities >0…

astro-ph.GA2024

IMBH Progenitors from Stellar Collisions in Dense Star Clusters

Elena González Prieto, Newlin C. Weatherford, Giacomo Fragione +2

Very massive stars (VMSs) formed via a sequence of stellar collisions in dense star clusters have been proposed as the progenitors of massive black hole seeds. VMSs could indeed co…

astro-ph.SR2024

On Binary Formation from Three Initially Unbound Bodies

Dany Atallah, Newlin C. Weatherford, Alessandro A. Trani +1

We explore three-body binary formation (3BBF), the formation of a bound system via gravitational scattering of three initially unbound bodies (3UB), using direct numerical integrat…