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astro-ph.GA2017★ 48 cited
Probing dark matter with star clusters: a dark matter core in the ultra-faint dwarf Eridanus II
Filippo Contenta, Eduardo Balbinot, James A. Petts +6
We present a new technique to probe the central dark matter (DM) density profile of galaxies that harnesses both the survival and observed properties of star clusters. As a first a…
astro-ph.GA2017★ 17 cited
Infalling Young Clusters in the Galactic Centre: implications for IMBHs and young stellar populations
J. A. Petts, A. Gualandris
The central parsec of the Milky Way hosts two puzzlingly young stellar populations, a tight isotropic distribution of B stars around SgrA* (the S-stars) and a disk of OB stars exte…