Unveiling stellar-mass black holes in globular clusters with dynamical models

The PhD Thesis can be download as PDF Docoment here.

Online Data and Links for Chapter 1

Article about the Star Maps found in the caves at Lascaux at the BBC.

This Chapter is based on the publication: Testing lowered isothermal models with direct N-body simulations of globular clusters - II. Multimass models by Peuten et al. (2017), MNRAS, 470,2736–2761 (2017MNRAS.470.2736P): ADS(new), ADS(old), arXiv, arXiv(PDF)

Links in the Chapter

• Footnote 1: LIMEPY: https://github.com/mgieles/limepy
• Footnote 2: Snapshots (see also below): http://astrowiki.ph.surrey.ac.uk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=tests:collision:mock_data:challenge_2

Data of the N-body Simulations used

This Chapter is based on the publication: A stellar-mass black hole population in the globular cluster NGC 6101? by Peuten et al. (2016), MNRAS, 462, 2333–2342 (2016MNRAS.462.2333P): ADS(new), ADS(old), arXiv, arXiv(PDF)

Links in the Chapter

• Footnote 1: Video summerizing the highlihts of this chapter for the general audience at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fmWeYcAksQ
• Footnote 2: A flight trough cluster N1 and N0 at the end of the simulation can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN9PuvW0oV4

Data of the N-body Simulations used

• Footnote 1: http://rtweb.aer.com/lblrtm_frame.html

• Footnote 1: See https://www.surrey.ac.uk/mediacentre/press/2018/new-research-reveals-hundreds-undiscovered-black-holes

• Footnote 1: The MF code presented can be downloaded from https://github.com/balbinot/ssptools

This Chapter comes from the Appendix of Chapter 2 and the publication: Testing lowered isothermal models with direct N-body simulations of globular clusters - II. Multimass models by Peuten et al. (2017), MNRAS, 470,2736–2761 (2017MNRAS.470.2736P): ADS(new), ADS(old), arXiv, arXiv(PDF)