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Resonances and instabilities in symmetric multistep methods
Gerald D. Quinlan
The symmetric multistep methods developed by Quinlan and Tremaine (1990) are shown to suffer from resonances and instabilities at special stepsizes when used to integrate nonlinear…
Dynamical Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies with Central Singularities
David Merritt, Gerald Quinlan
We study the effect of a massive central singularity on the structure of a triaxial galaxy using N-body simulations. Starting from a single initial model, we grow black holes with…
The dynamical evolution of massive black hole binaries - II. Self-consistent N-body integrations
Gerald D. Quinlan, Lars Hernquist
We use a hybrid N-body program to study the evolution of massive black hole binaries in the centers of galaxies, mainly to understand the factors affecting the binary eccentricity,…
New evidence for a massive black hole at the centre of the quiescent galaxy M32
R. P. van der Marel, P. T. de Zeeuw, H. W. Rix +1
Massive black holes are thought to reside at the centres of many galaxies, where they power quasars and active galactic nuclei. But most galaxies are quiescent, indicating that any…
The time-scale for core collapse in spherical star clusters
Gerald D. Quinlan
The collapse time for a cluster of equal-mass stars is usually stated to be either 330 central relaxation times ($\trc$) or 12--19 half-mass relaxation times ($\trh$). But the firs…
The dynamical evolution of massive black hole binaries - I. Hardening in a fixed stellar background
Gerald D. Quinlan
The stellar ejection rate and the rates of change of the binary semimajor axis and eccentricity are derived from scattering experiments for the restricted three-body problem. They…