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astro-ph2005
Massive Black Hole Binaries from Collisional Runaways
M. Atakan Gürkan, John M. Fregeau, Frederic A. Rasio
Recent theoretical work has solidified the viability of the collisional runaway scenario in young dense star clusters for the formation of very massive stars (VMSs), which may be p…
astro-ph2004
Run-away formation of intermediate-mass black holes in dense star clusters
Marc Freitag, M. Atakan Gürkan, Frederic A. Rasio
We consider spherical stellar clusters with a broad mass function and a relaxation time short enough so that the segregation of massive stars toward the centre occurs before they h…
astro-ph2003
Monte Carlo Simulations of Globular Cluster Evolution. III. Primordial Binary Interactions
J. M. Fregeau, M. A. Gurkan, K. J. Joshi +1
We study the dynamical evolution of globular clusters using our 2D Monte Carlo code with the inclusion of primordial binary interactions for equal-mass stars. We use approximate an…