Sowing the seeds of massive black holes in small galaxies: Young clusters as the building blocks of ultracompact dwarf galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 782, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Amaro Seoane, Pau ^a   Konstantinidis, Symeon ^b   Freitag, Marc Dewi ^c,d   Coleman Miller, M ^e   Rasio, Frederic A ^f  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b ASTRONOMISCHES RECHEN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Gymnase de Nyon   (Switzerland)

^e University of Maryland   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: star clusters: general; Gravitational waves; Quasars: supermassive black holes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893523043     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/782/2/97     Document Type: Article

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