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Tidal radii of remote globular clusters (R_{GC}>= 35 kpc) are used to provide constraints of the mass profile of the Milky Way galaxy that are independent of kinematic data. The available data are consistent with the profile of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michele Bellazzini

We present the results of a series of numerical simulations of compressible, self-gravitating hydrodynamic turbulence of cluster-forming clumps in molecular clouds. We examine the role that turbulence has in the formation of gravitationally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David A. Tilley , Ralph E. Pudritz

We explore the decay of turbulence and magnetic fields generated by fluctuation dynamo action in the context of galaxy clusters where such a decaying phase can occur in the aftermath of a major merger event. Using idealized numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Sharanya Sur

For dwarf galaxies modeled as deformed Plummer spheres and orbitally moving in ultralight dark matter halo of the Milky Way, the torque induced by the dynamical friction force is determined. The impact of this torque, as well as the torque…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 E. V. Gorbar , A. I. Momot

In previous papers of this series, we developed a new algorithm for modeling the formation of star clusters in galaxy formation simulations. Here we investigate how dissolution of bound star clusters affects the shape of the cluster mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-21 Hui Li , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Dynamical friction governs the orbital decay of massive perturbers within galaxies and dark matter halos, yet its standard Chandrasekhar formulation fails in systems with cores of (roughly) constant density, where inspiral can halt or even…

We study the effect of tidal torques on the collapse of density peaks through the equations of motion of a shell of barionic matter falling into the central regions of a cluster of galaxies. We calculate the time of collapse of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Del Popolo , M. Gambera

We investigate the gravitational wake due to, and dynamical friction on, a perturber moving on a circular orbit in a uniform gaseous medium using a semi-analytic method. This work is a straightforward extension of Ostriker (1999) who…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Hyosun Kim , Woong-Tae Kim

We present an end-to-end, two-phase model for the origin of globular clusters (GCs). In the model, populations of stellar clusters form in the high-pressure discs of high-redshift ($z>2$) galaxies (a rapid-disruption phase due to tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

The turbulent motion within molecular clouds is a key factor controlling star formation. Turbulence supports molecular cloud cores from evolving to gravitational collapse and hence sets a lower bound on the size of molecular cloud cores in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yang Gao , Haitao Xu , Chung K. Law

The rotation of horizontal branch stars places important constraints on angular momentum evolution in evolved stars and therefore rotational mixing on the giant branch. Prompted by new observations of rotation rates of horizontal branch…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Sills , M. Pinsonneault

Structure of a quasi-stationary stellar cluster is modelled assuming that it is embedded in the gravitational field of a super-massive black hole. Gradual orbital decay of stellar trajectories is caused by the dissipative interaction with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Subr , V. Karas , J. -M. Hure

Context. Recent observational data show that the Milky Way (MW) galaxy contains about 170 globular clusters (GCs). A fraction of them is likely formed in dwarf galaxies accreted onto the MW in the past, while the remaining of clusters are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-24 M. Ishchenko , M. Sobolenko , P. Berczik , S. Khoperskov , C. Omarov , O. Sobodar , M. Makukov

We investigate pulsar timing residuals due to the coupling effect of the pulsar transverse acceleration and the R$\rm{\ddot{o}}$mer delay. The effect is relatively small and usually negligible. Only for pulsars in globular clusters, it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Li-Chun Wang , Yi Xie

We study the influence of fuzzy-dark-matter cores on the orbits of stars at the Galactic centre. This dark matter candidate condenses into dense, solitonic cores, and, if a super-massive black hole is present at the centre of such a core,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yonadav Barry Ginat , Bence Kocsis

Using the formalism of general relativity for axially symmetric gravitational fields and their sources - rotating compact stars - a perturbation theory with respect to angular velocity is developed and physical quantities such as mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 E. Chubarian , H. Grigorian , G. Poghosyan , D. Blaschke

The five globular clusters (GCs) of the Fornax dSph are puzzling for two reasons; the mass in GCs is high with respect to the galaxy's old stellar mass, and their survival and large distance (> 1 kpc) is at odds with naive expectations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Gigi Y. C. Leung , Ryan Leaman , Glenn van de Ven , Giuseppina Battaglia

The migration of a planet through a gaseous disc causes the locations of their resonant interactions to drift and can alter the torques exerted between the planet and the disc. We analyse the time-dependent dynamics of a non-coorbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. I. Ogilvie , S. H. Lubow

We model the inspiral of globular clusters (GCs) towards a galactic nucleus harboring a supermassive black hole (SMBH), a leading scenario for the formation of nuclear star clusters. We consider the case of GCs containing either an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-18 Manuel Arca Sedda , Alessia Gualandris

Globular Clusters (GCs) provide valuable insight into the properties of their host galaxies' dark matter halos. Using N-body simulations incorporating semianalytic dynamical friction and GC-GC merger prescriptions, we study the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-10 Shaunak Modak , Shany Danieli , Jenny E. Greene