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Will a nuclear stellar disk form in the galaxy Henize 2-10?

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-01-20 v1

Abstract

We present results of a set of NN-body simulations to model the future evolution of the 11 young massive clusters hosted in the central region of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10, which contains at its center a massive black hole with a mass MBH2×106M_{\rm BH} \simeq 2\times 10^6 M_\odot. Nuclear star clusters are present in a great quantity of galaxies of mass similar to Henize 2-10. Our results \citep{ASCD15} show that the orbital decay and merging of the Henize 2-10 clusters will likely lead to the formation of a nuclear star cluster with mass MNSC46×106M_{\rm NSC} \simeq 4-6 \times 10^6 M_\odot and effective radius rNSC4.1r_{\rm NSC} \simeq 4.1 pc. Additionally, we found that this mechanism can lead to the formation of disky structures with global properties similar to those of nuclear stellar disks, which reside in many "middle-weight" galaxies. This work confirms and enlarge recent results \citep{ASCDS15} that indicate how nuclear star clusters and super massive black holes are only partially correlated, since the formation process of nuclear star clusters is poorly affected by a black hole of the size of that in Henize 2-10. A new result is that nuclear star clusters and nuclear stellar disks may share the same formation path.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04861,
  title  = {Will a nuclear stellar disk form in the galaxy Henize 2-10?},
  author = {Manuel Arca-Sedda and Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04861},
  year   = {2016}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, to be published in the proceedings of the 14th Marcel Grossmann meeting

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