The formation and observational signatures of a new class of compact stellar-dynamical populations: the dark clusters

• Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Pavel Kroupa
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Astrophysik und Astronomie
• Förderung: Förderung von 2012 bis 2016
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 210669755

• Erstellungsjahr: 2018

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

Dark star clusters have been shown to be a natural consequence of current knowledge of stellar evolution and stellar dynamics and are now known to be more abundant in low-metallicity dwarf galaxies, provided the kick velocities are not large. The future will see further specifications of the DSC appearance in terms of the surface brightness and velocity dispersion as potential diapnostics, and observational strategies need to be applied to find explicit examples.

Projektbezogene Publikationen (Auswahl)

• 2017. Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters and their role in gravitational-wave generation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 467, 524-539
  Banerjee, S.