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Massive black hole assembly in nuclear star clusters
Konstantinos Kritos, Emanuele Berti, Joseph Silk
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Nuclear star clusters, which fragment into metal-poor stars in situ at the centers of protogalaxies, provide ideal environments for the formation of intermediate-mass black holes with masses 10³-10⁶M_⊙. We utilize the semianalytic model implemented in Rapster, a public rapid cluster evolution code. We implement simple recipes for stellar collisions and gas accretion/expulsion into the code and identify the regimes where each channel contributes to the dynamical formation of intermediate-mass black holes via repeated mergers of stellar black hole seeds. We find that intermediate-mass black hole formation in gas-rich environments is almost inevitable if the initial mean density of the nuclear cluster is >10⁸M_⊙ pc⁻³. A million solar mass black hole can form within 100~Myr in the heaviest (>10⁷M_⊙) and most compact (<0.5 pc) nuclear clusters. We demonstrate that by today these resemble the observed range of nuclear clusters in dwarf galaxies and that there are potential gravitational-wave signatures of the massive black hole formation process.
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