Growth of Seed Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
Abstract
The evolution of dense star clusters is followed by direct high-accuracy N-body simulation. The problem is to first order a gravitational N-body problem, but stars evolve due to astrophysics and the more massive ones form black holes or neutron stars as compact remnants at the end of their life. After including updates of stellar evolution of massive stars and for the relativistic treatment of black hole binaries we find the growth of intermediate mass black holes and we show that in star clusters binary black hole mergers in the so-called pair creation supernova (PSN) gap occur easily. Such black hole mergers have been recently observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, a network of ground based gravitational wave detectors.
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@article{arxiv.2307.08068,
title = {Growth of Seed Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei},
author = {Rainer Spurzem and Francesco Rizzuto and Manuel Arca Sedda and Albrecht Kamlah and Peter Berczik and Qi Shu and Ataru Tanikawa and Thorsten Naab},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08068},
year = {2023}
}
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Article in Proceedings of NIC Symposium 2022, 14 pages, 5 figures