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Resonant relaxation near a massive black hole: the dependence on eccentricity
M. Atakan Gürkan, Clovis Hopman
The orbits of stars close to a massive black hole are nearly Keplerian ellipses. Such orbits exert long term torques on each other, which lead to an enhanced angular momentum relax…
Star Cluster Evolution with Primordial Binaries
John M. Fregeau, M. Atakan Gurkan, Frederic A. Rasio
Observations and theoretical work suggest that globular clusters may be born with initially very large binary fractions. We present first results from our newly modified Monte-Carl…
Runaway collisions in young star clusters. II. Numerical results
Marc Freitag, M. Atakan Gürkan, Frederic A. Rasio
We present a new study of the collisional runaway scenario to form an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH, MBH > 100 Msun) at the centre of a young, compact stellar cluster. The fir…
The Disruption of Stellar Clusters Containing Massive Black Holes near the Galactic Center
M. Atakan Gürkan, Frederic A. Rasio
We present results from dynamical Monte Carlo simulations of dense star clusters near the Galactic center. These clusters sink toward the center of the Galaxy by dynamical friction…
Post-Glitch RXTE-PCA Observations of the Vela Pulsar
M. Atakan Gurkan, Altan Baykal, M. Ali Alpar +2
We report the results of analysis of observations of the Vela Pulsar by PCA on RXTE. Our data consists of two parts. The first part contains observations at 1, 4, and 9 days after…