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We investigate a model in which galactic nuclei form via the coalescence of pre-existing stellar systems containing supermassive black holes. Merger simulations are carried out using N-body algorithms that can follow the formation and decay…

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Dense star clusters are spectacular self-gravitating stellar systems in our Galaxy and across the Universe - in many respects. They populate disks and spheroids of galaxies as well as almost every galactic center. In massive elliptical…

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A new exact static interior solution of the Einstein equations is obtained for a gravitating ball filled with a Pascal perfect fluid . The solution is an extension of the well-known interior solution with a parabolic distribution of mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-17 Alexandre M. Baranov

In the now well established conventional view (see Rees [1] and references therein), quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) and related active galactic nuclei (AGN) phenomena are explained as the result of accretion of plasma onto giant black holes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Fukugita , E. L. Turner

We derive inner dark matter halo density profiles for a sample of 165 low-mass galaxies using rotation curves obtained from high-quality, long-slit optical spectra assuming minimal disks and spherical symmetry. For $\rho(r) \sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristine Spekkens , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

We investigate the behaviour of a system of particles with the different character of interaction. The approach makes it possible to describe systems of interacting particles by statistical methods taking into account a spatial…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets , Bohdan Lev

We address the classical problem of star accretion onto a supermassive central gaseous object in a galactic nucleus. The resulting supermassive central gas-star object is assumed to be located at the centre of a dense stellar system for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Rainer Spurzem

The existence of stellar cusps in dense clusters around massive black holes is a fundamental, decades-old prediction of theoretical stellar dynamics. Yet, observational evidence has been difficult to obtain. With a new, improved analysis of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-02 R. Schödel , P. Amaro-Seoane , E. Gallego-Cano

Recent simulation work has successfully captured the formation of the star clusters that have been observed in merging galaxies. These studies, however, tend to focus on studying extreme starbursts, such as the Antennae galaxies. We aim to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Leila C. Powell , Frederic Bournaud , Damien Chapon , Romain Teyssier

Collisionless self-gravitating systems, e.g., cold dark matter halos, harbor universal density profiles despite the intricate non-linear physics of hierarchical structure formation, the origin of which has been a persistent mystery. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Uddipan Banik , Amitava Bhattacharjee

Modern hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation are able to predict accurately the rates and locations of the assembly of giant molecular clouds in early galaxies. These clouds could host star clusters with the masses and sizes of real…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Oleg Y. Gnedin

We construct an approximate solution to the cosmological perturbation theory around Einstein-de Sitter background up to the fourth-order perturbations. This could be done with the help of the specific symmetry condition imposed on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Szymon Sikora , Krzysztof Głód

We discuss various aspects of the inner structure formation in virialized dark matter (DM) halos that form as primordial density inhomogeneities evolve in the cosmological standard model. The main focus is on the study of central…

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In order to explain the spectroscopic observations of most of the galaxies in intermediate redshift clusters, bursts of star formation superimposed to the traditional scenario of galactic evolution are needed. The analysis of spectral lines…

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Recent observations indicate that the progenitors of globular clusters (GCs) at high redshifts had high average stellar surface densities above $10^5\, \mathrm{M}_\odot\, \mathrm{pc}^{-2}$. The internal structure and kinematics of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-10 Natalia Lahén , Thorsten Naab , Antti Rantala , Christian Partmann

We suggest a possible mechanism of ultra diffuse galaxy formation: the UDGs may occur as a result of a central collision of galaxies. If the galaxies are young and contain a lot of gas, the collision may kick all the gas off the systems and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Anton N. Baushev

The relaxed distribution of stars around a massive black hole is known to follow a cusp profile $\rho(r)\propto r^{-\alpha}$ with characteristic slope $\alpha=7/4$. This follows from energy conservation and a scattering rate as given by two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Giacomo Fragione , Re'em Sari

We suggest that the bulge-to-disc ratios of spiral galaxies are primarily determined by the angular momenta of their host haloes predicted in current hierarchical clustering models for structure formation. Gas with low specific angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shude Mao , H. J. Mo

In the cold dark matter model of structure formation, galaxies are assembled hierarchically from mergers and the accretion of subclumps. This process is expected to leave residual substructure in the Galactic dark halo, including partially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Stiff , L. M. Widrow , J. Frieman

Filaments are ubiquitous throughout the Galaxy. Massive star formation is often observed in hub-filament systems, where multiple filaments appear to be interconnected and merging. Filament-filament collisions are therefore a likely…

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