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Dynamical Evolution of Rotating Globular Clusters with Embedded Black Holes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

J. Fiestas ,
O. Porth  and
R. Spurzem
J. Fiestas
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
O. Porth
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
R. Spurzem
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract

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Evolution of self-gravitating rotating dense stellar systems (e.g. globular clusters) with embedded black holes is investigated. The interplay between velocity diffusion due to relaxation and black hole star accretion is followed together with cluster differential rotation using 2D+1 Fokker Planck numerical methods. The models can reproduce the Bahcall-Wolf f ∝ E1/4 (∝ r−7/4) cusp inside the zone of influence of the black hole. Angular momentum transport and star accretion processes support the development of central rotation in relaxation time scales, before re-expansion and cluster dissolution due to mass loss in the tidal field of a parent galaxy. Gravogyro and gravothermal instabilities conduce the system to a faster evolution leading to shorter collapse times with respect to models without black hole.

Keywords

methods: numericalgravitationstellar dynamicsblack hole physicsglobular clusters: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S246: Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems , September 2007 , pp. 166 - 170
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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