Tracing Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Galactic Centre
Abstract
We have developed a new method for post-Newtonian, high-precision integration of stellar systems containing a super-massive black hole (SMBH), splitting the forces on a particle between a dominant central force and perturbations. We used this method to perform fully collisional N-body simulations of inspiralling intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in the centre of the Milky Way.
- Publication:
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Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems
- Pub Date:
- May 2008
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..246..367L
- Keywords:
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- Galaxy: centre;
- methods: n-body simulations;
- black hole physics;
- stellar dynamics