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HST在星团中寻找中等质量黑洞

HST's hunt for intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters

Julio Chanamé, Justice Bruursema, Rupali Chandar, Jay Anderson, Roeland van der Marel, Holland Ford

摘要:

无论是通过固体质量测量还是通过上限来确定或排除星团中心中等质量黑洞(IMBH)的存在,都将深刻影响我们对恒星系统形成和长期动力学演化、超大质量黑洞种子性质和生长机制等问题的理解。虽然有健全的理论论据支持和反对它们在今天的集群中的存在,但迄今为止,观测研究还没有得出真正结论性的IMBH检测或上限。我们认为,最有前途的方法来解决这个问题是由银河系球状星团和动力学模型的中心,能够充分利用这种类型的数据集的恒星的自行车的测量相结合。我们提出了一个程序的基础上HST的观测和最近开发的工具,动力学分析,旨在做到这一点。

英文摘要:

Establishing or ruling out, either through solid mass measurements or upper limits, the presence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) at the centers of star clusters would profoundly impact our understanding of problems ranging from the formation and long-term dynamical evolution of stellar systems, to the nature of the seeds and the growth mechanisms of supermassive black holes. While there are sound theoretical arguments both for and against their presence in today's clusters, observational studies have so far not yielded truly conclusive IMBH detections nor upper limits. We argue that the most promising approach to solving this issue is provided by the combination of measurements of the proper motions of stars at the centers of Galactic globular clusters and dynamical models able to take full advantage of this type of data set. We present a program based on HST observations and recently developed tools for dynamical analysis designed to do just that.

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