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AGB-star Mass Transfer Products in Stellar Streams as Tracers of Density in Dissolved Star Clusters
Newlin C. Weatherford, Madeleine McKenzie, Sam A. Usman
The least dense globular clusters (GCs) appear to host the highest fractions of stars with chemical signatures of mass transfer from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) companions. Recen…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters. II. Clusters May Eat Their Own Tails
Newlin C. Weatherford, Frederic A. Rasio, Sourav Chatterjee +3
We apply for the first time the Monte Carlo star cluster modeling method to study tidal tail and stellar stream formation from globular clusters, assuming a circular orbit in a smo…
Stellar Escape from Globular Clusters. I. Escape Mechanisms and Properties at Ejection
Newlin C. Weatherford, Fulya Kıroğlu, Giacomo Fragione +3
The theory of stellar escape from globular clusters (GCs) dates back nearly a century, especially the gradual evaporation of GCs via two-body relaxation coupled with external tides…
Growing Black Holes through Successive Mergers in Galactic Nuclei: I. Methods and First Results
Dany Atallah, Alessandro A. Trani, Kyle Kremer +4
We present a novel, few-body computational framework designed to shed light on the likelihood of forming intermediate-mass (IM) and supermassive (SM) black holes (BHs) in nuclear s…
Intermediate-mass Black Holes on the Run from Young Star Clusters
Elena González Prieto, Kyle Kremer, Giacomo Fragione +4
The existence of black holes (BHs) with masses in the range between stellar remnants and supermassive BHs has only recently become unambiguously established. GW190521, a gravitatio…
Gravitational Microlensing Rates in Milky Way Globular Clusters
Fulya Kıroğlu, Newlin C. Weatherford, Kyle Kremer +3
Many recent observational and theoretical studies suggest that globular clusters (GCs) host compact object populations large enough to play dominant roles in their overall dynamica…
Compact Object Modeling in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
Claire S. Ye, Kyle Kremer, Carl L. Rodriguez +5
The globular cluster 47~Tucanae (47~Tuc) is one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way and is exceptionally rich in exotic stellar populations. For several decades it h…
Modeling Dense Star Clusters in the Milky Way and Beyond with the Cluster Monte Carlo Code
Carl L. Rodriguez, Newlin C. Weatherford, Scott C. Coughlin +10
We describe the public release of the Cluster Monte Carlo Code (CMC) a parallel, star-by-star -body code for modeling dense star clusters. CMC treats collisional stellar dynamic…
White Dwarf Subsystems in Core-Collapsed Globular Clusters
Kyle Kremer, Nicholas Z. Rui, Newlin C. Weatherford +5
Numerical and observational evidence suggests that massive white dwarfs dominate the innermost regions of core-collapsed globular clusters by both number and total mass. Using NGC…
No Black Holes in NGC 6397
Nicholas Z. Rui, Newlin Weatherford, Kyle Kremer +5
Recently, \citet{vitral2021does} detected a central concentration of dark objects in the core-collapsed globular cluster NGC 6397, which could be interpreted as a subcluster of ste…
Matching Globular Cluster Models to Observations
Nicholas Z. Rui, Kyle Kremer, Newlin C. Weatherford +4
As ancient, gravitationally bound stellar populations, globular clusters are abundant, vibrant laboratories characterized by high frequencies of dynamical interactions coupled to c…
The Observed Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers can be Entirely Explained by Globular Clusters
Carl L. Rodriguez, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee +5
Since the first signal in 2015, the gravitational-wave detections of merging binary black holes (BBHs) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations (LVC) have completely transformed our un…
Intermediate-mass Black Holes from High Massive-star Binary Fractions in Young Star Clusters
Elena González, Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee +5
Black holes formed in dense star clusters, where dynamical interactions are frequent, may have fundamentally different properties than those formed through isolated stellar evoluti…
Black Hole Mergers from Star Clusters with Top-Heavy Initial Mass Functions
Newlin C. Weatherford, Giacomo Fragione, Kyle Kremer +4
Recent observations of globular clusters (GCs) provide evidence that the stellar initial mass function (IMF) may not be universal, suggesting specifically that the IMF grows increa…
Black Hole Mergers from Hierarchical Triples in Dense Star Clusters
Miguel A. S. Martinez, Giacomo Fragione, Kyle Kremer +8
Hierarchical triples are expected to be produced by the frequent binary-mediated interactions in the cores of globular clusters. In some of these triples, the tertiary companion ca…
Demographics of triple systems in dense star clusters
Giacomo Fragione, Miguel A. S. Martinez, Kyle Kremer +6
Depending on the stellar type, more than \% and of stars in the field have at least one and two stellar companions, respectively. Hierarchical systems can be a…
GW190412 as a Third-Generation Black Hole Merger from a Super Star Cluster
Carl L. Rodriguez, Kyle Kremer, Michael Y. Grudić +8
We explore the possibility that GW190412, a binary black hole merger with a non-equal-mass ratio and significantly spinning primary, was formed through repeated black hole mergers…
A Dynamical Survey of Stellar-Mass Black Holes in 50 Milky Way Globular Clusters
Newlin C. Weatherford, Sourav Chatterjee, Kyle Kremer +1
Recent numerical simulations of globular clusters (GCs) have shown that stellar-mass black holes (BHs) play a fundamental role in driving cluster evolution and shaping their presen…