6 papers
When bars and spirals conspire: recurrent build-up of the nuclear regions of disc galaxies
Tristan Boin, Sergey Khoperskov, Paola Di Matteo +6
The assembly history of the central regions of disc galaxies is regulated by dynamical processes that trigger gas infall events, leading to active star formation in nuclear stellar…
Intermediate-mass black hole seeding in galactic nuclei from star cluster migration
Stefano Torniamenti, Nils Hoyer, Nadine Neumayer +2
Nuclear star clusters are one of the most favorable sites to host hierarchical black hole (BH) mergers, potentially bridging the gap from stellar-mass to massive BHs. However, thei…
Massive Star Clusters in the Semi-Analytical Galaxy Formation Model L-Galaxies 2020
Nils Hoyer, Silvia Bonoli, Nate Bastian +7
It is established that there exists a direct link between the formation history of star cluster populations and their host galaxies. However, our lack of understanding of the assem…
The Nuclear Star Cluster of M 74: a fossil record of the very early stages of a star-forming galaxy
Francesca Pinna, Nils Hoyer, Jairo Méndez Abreu +13
Nuclear star clusters (NSC) are dense and compact stellar systems, of sizes of few parsecs, located at galactic centers. Their properties and formation mechanisms seem to be tightl…
Rapid formation of a very massive star >50000 and subsequently an IMBH from runaway collisions. Direct N-body and Monte Carlo simulations of dense star clusters
Marcelo C. Vergara, Abbas Askar, Albrecht W. H. Kamlah +15
Context. We present simulations of a massive young star cluster using \textsc{Nbody6++GPU} and \textsc{MOCCA}. The cluster is initially more compact than previously published model…
Why the Northern Hemisphere Needs a 30-40 m Telescope and the Science at Stake: Mapping formation pathways of nuclear star clusters across galaxies
Francesca Pinna, Isabel Pérez, Anna Ferré-Mateu +21
Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are dense, compact stellar systems only a few parsecs across, located at galaxy centers. Their small sizes make them difficult to resolve spatially. NS…