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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…
The Dynamical Effects of White Dwarf Birth Kicks in Globular Star Clusters
John M. Fregeau, Harvey B. Richer, Frederic A. Rasio +1
Recent observations of the white dwarf (WD) populations in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397 suggest that WDs receive a kick of a few km/s shortly before they are born. Using…
Could Black-Hole X-Ray Binaries Be Detected in Globular Clusters?
Vassiliki Kalogera, Andrew King, Frederic A. Rasio
We consider the implications of the presence of ~1 stellar-mass black hole (BH) at the center of a dense globular cluster. We show that BH X-ray binaries formed through exchange in…
Mass Segregation in Globular Clusters
J. M. Fregeau, K. J. Joshi, S. F. Portegies Zwart +1
We present the results of a new study of mass segregation in two-component star clusters, based on a large number of numerical N-body simulations using our recently developed dynam…
Formation of Compact Binaries in Globular Clusters
Saul Rappaport, Eric Pfahl, Fred Rasio +1
We report here on two complementary population synthesis studies which relate directly to the formation and evolution of neutron star binaries in globular clusters. In the first, w…