Ratios of star cluster core and half-mass radii: A cautionary note on intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 379, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-99

  Hurley, Jarrod R ^a,b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Globular clusters: general; Methods: N body simulations; Open clusters and associations: general; Stars: evolution; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; GRAVITATION;

BINARIES: CLOSE; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS:GENERAL; HALF MASS; INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLES; METHODS:N-BODY SIMULATIONS; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS: GENERAL; STAR CLUSTERS; STAR: EVOLUTION; STELLAR DYNAMICS;

STARS;

EID: 34547204435     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11912.x     Document Type: Article

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