The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2011-07-05 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
In the center of the Milky Way, as well as in many other galaxies, a compact star cluster around a very massive black hole is observed. One of the possible explanations for the formation of such Nuclear Star Clusters is based on the 'merging' of globular clusters in the inner galactic potential well. By mean of sophisticated N-body simulations, we checked the validity of this hypothesis and found that it may actually has been the one leading to the formation of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster.
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@article{arxiv.1107.0484,
title = {The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster},
author = {Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta and Fabio Antonini and Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.0484},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of "Stellar Clusters and Associations - A RIA workshop on GAIA", 23-27 May 2011, Granada, Spain