Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-12-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
10.1086/375307
We consider the possibility that an infalling bulge core or stellar cluster could form an eccentric disk, following tidal disruption by a massive black hole in the center of a galaxy. As a function of central black hole mass, we constrain the core radii and central densities of cluster progenitors capable of becoming nearly Keplerian disks which can support lopsided slow modes. We find that progenitor stellar clusters with core radii less than a pc and densities above a few times 10^5 Msol/pc^3 are likely eccentric disk progenitors near a massive black hole of mass 10^7 to 10^8 Msol. Lower density and larger progenitor cores are capable of causing eccentric stellar disks near more massive black holes. Our constraints on the progenitor cores are consistent with existing N-body simulations, which in one case has produced an eccentric disk. For M31 and NGC 4486B, the estimated progenitor cluster cores are dense and compact compared to Galactic globular clusters, however the cores of nearby galaxies such as M33, M32 and M31 itself are in the right regime. If galaxy mergers can create eccentric disks, then they would be a natural consequence of hierarchical galaxy formation.
Hubbard Alex
Quillen Alice. C.
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