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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…
Structure and Dynamics of the Young Massive Star Cluster Westerlund 1
Lingfeng Wei, Matthew W. Hosek, Jessica R. Lu +8
We present a structural analysis of the young massive star cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd 1). With multi-epoch Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations, we measure the proper motions of…
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…
Star Formation in Different Environments: The Initial Mass Function
M. W. Hosek, J. R. Lu, M. Andersen +7
The stellar initial mass function (IMF) is a fundamental property of star formation, offering key insight into the physics driving the process as well as informing our understandin…