Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2015-05-18 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
We summarize the recent results of our survey of the nearest nuclear star clusters. The purpose of the survey is to understand nuclear star cluster formation mechanisms and constrain the presence of black holes using adaptive optics assisted integral field spectroscopy, optical spectroscopy, and HST imaging in 13 galaxies within 5 Mpc. We discuss the formation history of the nuclear star cluster and possible detection of an intermediate mass BH in NGC 404, the nearest S0 galaxy.
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@article{arxiv.1002.0824,
title = {Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes},
author = {Anil Seth and Michele Cappellari and Nadine Neumayer and Nelson Caldwell and Nate Bastian and Knut Olsen and Robert Blum and Victor Debattista and Richard McDermid and Thomas Puzia and Andrew Stephens},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.0824},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds. V.P. Debattista and C.C. Popescu, AIP Conf. Ser., in press