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The JWST Galactic Center Survey -- A White Paper
Rainer Schoedel, Steve Longmore, Jonny Henshaw +111
The inner hundred parsecs of the Milky Way hosts the nearest supermassive black hole, largest reservoir of dense gas, greatest stellar density, hundreds of massive main and post ma…
Intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters: observations and simulations
Nora Lützgendorf, Markus Kissler-Patig, Karl Gebhardt +9
The study of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is a young and promising field of research. Formed by runaway collisions of massive stars in young and dense stellar clusters, in…
The nuclear cluster of the Milky Way: Our primary testbed for the interaction of a dense star cluster with a massive black hole
R. Schödel, A. Feldmeier, N. Neumayer +2
This article intends to provide a concise overview, from an observational point-of-view, of the current state of our knowledge of the most relevant properties of the Milky Way's nu…
Large scale kinematics and dynamical modelling of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster
A. Feldmeier, N. Neumayer, A. Seth +6
Within the central 10pc of our Galaxy lies a dense nuclear star cluster (NSC), and similar NSCs are found in most nearby galaxies. Studying the structure and kinematics of NSCs rev…
Surface Brightness Profile of the Milky Way's Nuclear Star Cluster
R. Schodel, A. Feldmeier, D. Kunneriath +4
(abridged) In this paper we aim at determining the shape, size, and luminosity/mass of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster (MWNSC). We use Spitzer/IRAC images at 3.6 and 4.5 microme…
The M_BH - sigma relation for intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters
Nora Lützgendorf, Markus Kissler-Patig, Nadine Neumayer +6
For galaxies hosting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), it has been observed that the mass of the central black hole (M_BH) tightly correlates with the effective or central velocity…
Indication for an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster NGC 5286 from kinematics
A. Feldmeier, N. Lützgendorf, N. Neumayer +6
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs, 10^2-10^5 M_sun) fill the gap between stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Simulations have shown that IMBHs may for…
Intermediate-mass black holes in Globular Clusters
Nora Lützgendorf, Markus Kissler-Patig, Karl Gebhardt +6
For a sample of nine Galactic globular clusters we measured the inner kinematic profiles with integral-field spectroscopy that we combined with existing outer kinematic measurement…
Limits on intermediate-mass black holes in six Galactic globular clusters with integral-field spectroscopy
Nora Lützgendorf, Markus Kissler-Patig, Karl Gebhardt +6
The formation of supermassive black holes at high redshift still remains a puzzle to astronomers. Their growth becomes reasonable only when starting from a massive seed black hole…