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Nuclear Stellar Disks (NSDs), of a few tens to hundreds of parsec across, are a common and yet poorly studied feature of early-type galaxies. Still, such small disks represent a powerful tool to constrain the assembling history of galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 H. R. Ledo , M. Sarzi , M. Dotti , S. Khochfar , L. Morelli

Nuclear starburst discs (NSDs) are star-forming discs that may be residing in the nuclear regions of active galaxies at intermediate redshifts. One dimensional (1D) analytical models developed by Thompson et al. (2005) show that these discs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-03 Raj Gohil , David R. Ballantyne

We review the current knowledge about nuclear star clusters (NSCs), the spectacularly dense and massive assemblies of stars found at the centers of most galaxies. Recent observational and theoretical work suggest that many NSC properties,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Nadine Neumayer , Anil Seth , Torsten Boeker

Photometrically distinct nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are common in late-type-disk and spheroidal galaxies. The formation of NSCs is inevitable in the context of normal star formation in which a majority of stars form in clusters. A young,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Meghann Agarwal , Milos Milosavljevic

The centers of stellar spheroids are often marked by the presence of nucleated central regions, called nuclear star clusters (NSCs). The origin of NSCs is still unclear. Here we investigate the possibility that NSCs originate from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Fabio Antonini

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are the densest stellar systems in the Universe and are found in the centres of all types of galaxies. They are thought to form via mergers of star clusters such as ancient globular clusters (GCs) that spiral to…

Using the SMUDGes and SDSS catalogs, and our own reprocessing of the Legacy Surveys imaging, we investigate the properties of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) in galaxies having central surface brightnesses as low as 27 mag arcsec$^{-2}$. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-03 Donghyeon J. Khim , Dennis Zaritsky , Mika Lambert , Richard Donnerstein

We present photometric and morphological analyses of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) -- very dense, massive star clusters present in the central regions of most galaxies -- in a sample of 33 massive disk galaxies within 20 Mpc, part of the…

We review our current understanding of nuclear stellar discs (NSDs), rotating, and flattened stellar structures found in the central regions of both early- and late-type galaxies. We examine their demographics, kinematics, stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 Mathias Schultheis , Mattia C. Sormani , Dimitri A. Gadotti

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive star clusters found in all types of galaxies from dwarfs to massive galaxies. Recent studies show that while low-mass NSCs in dwarf galaxies ($M_\text{gal} < 10^{9} M_\odot$) form predominantly out…

Nuclear stellar cluster (NSCs) are known to exist around massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei. Two formation scenarios were suggested for their origin: Build-up of NSCs and Continuous in-situ star-formation. Here we study the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 Danor Aharon , Hagai B. Perets

Nuclear stellar cluster (NSCs) are known to exist around massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei. Two formation scenarios were suggested for their origin: (1) Build-up of NSCs from consecutive infall of stellar cluster and (2)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Danor Aharon , Hagai B. Perets

Nuclear Star Clusters (NSCs) are dense clusters of stars that reside in the centers of a majority of the galaxies. In this paper, we study the density profiles for 29 galaxies in a volume-limited survey within 10 Mpc to characterize their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Renuka Pechetti , Anil Seth , Nadine Neumayer , Iskren Georgiev , Nikolay Kacharov , Mark den Brok

A supermassive black hole (SMBH) surrounded by a dense, nuclear star cluster resides at the center of many galaxies. In this dense environment, high-velocity collisions frequently occur between stars. About $10 \%$ of the stars within the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-01 Sanaea C. Rose , Morgan MacLeod

We present a catalogue of photometric and structural properties of 228 nuclear star clusters (NSCs) in nearby late-type disk galaxies. These new measurements are derived from a homogeneous analysis of all suitable WFPC2 images in the $HST$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Iskren Y. Georgiev , Torsten Böker

Globular clusters (GCs) are the ideal environment for the formation of neutron stars (NSs) and millisecond pulsars (MSPs). NSs origin and evolution provide a useful information on stellar dynamics and evolution in star clusters, and are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Giacomo Fragione , Václav Pavlík , Sambaran Banerjee

The Nuclear Stellar Disc (NSD) is a rotating, disc-like structure in the Galactic Center, believed to have a distinct star formation. However, its formation history and evolutionary links to other structures in the Galactic Center remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 N. Ryde , G. Nandakumar , R. Albarracin , M. Schultheis , A. Rojas-Arriagada , M. Zoccali

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive star clusters found ubiquitously in the centres of galaxies, from the dwarf regime to massive ellipticals and spirals. The fraction of nucleated galaxies is as high as $>$ 90 % at $M_{\text{gal}}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Katja Fahrion , Ryan Leaman , Mariya Lyubenova , Glenn van de Ven

The nuclear stellar disc (NSD) is a dense stellar structure at the centre of our Galaxy. Given its proximity, it constitutes a unique laboratory to understand other galactic nuclei. Nevertheless, the high crowding and extinction hamper its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-20 Francisco Nogueras-Lara

The nuclei of galaxies often host small stellar discs with scale-lengths of a few tens of parsecs and luminosities up to 10^7 Lsun. To investigate the formation and properties of nuclear stellar discs (NSDs), we look for their presence in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Portaluri , E. M. Corsini , L. Morelli , M. Hartmann , E. Dalla Bontà , Victor P. Debattista , A. Pizzella
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