Interactions between a massive planet and a disc (2009)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Ribas, Ignasi, Loeckmann, Ulf, Baumgardt, Holger
We analyse the potential migration of massive planets forming far away from an inner planetary system. For this, we follow the dynamical evolution of the orbital elements of a massive planet...
Preto, Miguel, Amaro-Seoane, Pau
We present, for the first time, a clear $N$-body realization of the {\it strong mass segregation} solution for the stellar distribution around a massive black hole. We compare our $N$-body results...
Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves and Detection (2009)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Sesana, Alberto, Hoffman, Loren, Benacquista, Matthew, Eichhorn, Christoph, Makino, Junichiro, ...
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) found in the centers of many galaxies have been recognized to play a fundamental active role in the cosmological structure formation process. In hierarchical...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Santamaria, Lucia
Even though the existence of intermediate-mass black holes has not yet been corroborated observationally, these objects are of high interest for astrophysics. Our understanding of formation and...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Eichhorn, Christoph, Porter, Edward K., Spurzem, Rainer
The dynamical evolution of binaries of intermediate-massive black holes (IMBHs, massive black holes with a mass ranging between $10^2$ and $10^4 M_{\odot}$) in stellar clusters has recently received...
Probing Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei (2009)
Miller, M. Coleman, Alexander, Tal, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Barth, Aaron J., Cutler, Curt, Gair, Jonathan R., ...
Electromagnetic observations over the last 15 years have yielded a growing appreciation for the importance of supermassive black holes (SMBH) to the evolution of galaxies, and for the intricacies of...
Gravitational waves from eccentric intermediate-mass black hole binaries (2009)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Miller, Cole, Freitag, Marc
If binary intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; with masses between 100 and $10^4 \Msun$) form in dense stellar clusters, their inspiral will be detectable with the planned Laser Interferometer Space...
Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Intermediate-mass Black Hole Binaries (2009)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Miller, M. Coleman, Freitag, Marc
f binary intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; with masses between 100 and 10(4) M-circle dot) form in dense stellar clusters, their inspiral will be detectable with the planned Laser Interferometer...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...
Black hole binaries with extreme (gtrsim104:1) or intermediate (~102–104:1) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the proposed...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...
Khalisi, Emil, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer
We address the dynamical evolution of an isolated self--gravitating system with two stellar mass groups. We vary the individual ratio of the heavy to light bodies, $\mu$ from 1.25 to 50 and alter...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt, ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Freitag, Marc
Observations suggest that star clusters often form in binaries or larger bound groups. Therefore, mergers between two clusters are likely to occur. If these clusters both harbor an intermediate-mass...
Gravitational waves from coalescing massive black holes in young dense clusters (2006)
HST observations reveal that young massive star clusters form in gas-rich environments like the Antenn{\ae} galaxy which will merge in collisional processes to form larger structures. These clusters...
The MODEST questions: challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research (2006)
Davies, Melvyn B., Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Bassa, Cees, Dale, Jim, De Angeli, Francesca, Freitag, Marc, ...
We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass...
Models of mass segregation at the Galactic centre (2006)
Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, Vassiliki
We study the process of mass segregation through 2-body relaxation in galactic nuclei with a central massive black hole (MBH). This study has bearing on a variety of astrophysical questions, from the...
Stellar remnants in galactic nuclei: mass segregation (2006)
Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, Vassiliki
The study of how stars distribute themselves around a massive black hole (MBH) in the center of a galaxy is an important prerequisite for the understanding of many galactic-center processes. These...
Khalisi, Emil, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer
We address the dynamical evolution of an isolated self--gravitating system with two stellar mass groups. We vary the individual ratio of the heavy to light bodies, $\mu$ from 1.25 to 50 and alter...
Dynamics of compact objects clusters: A post-Newtonian study (2006)
Kupi, Gabor, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer
Compact object clusters are likely to exist in the centre of some galaxies because of mass segregation. The high densities and velocities reached in them deserves a better understanding. The...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Freitag, Marc
Observations suggest that star clusters often form in binaries or larger bound groups. Therefore, mergers between two clusters are likely to occur. If these clusters both harbor an intermediate-mass...
The MODEST questions: Challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research (2006)
Davies, Melvyn B., Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Bassa, Cees, Dale, Jim, De Angeli, Francesca, Freitag, Marc, ...
We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass...
Stellar remnants in galactic nuclei: Mass segregation (2006)
Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, V.
The study of how stars distribute themselves around a massive black hole (MBH) in the center of a galaxy is an important prerequisite for the understanding of many galactic-center processes. These...
Dynamics of compact object clusters: a post-Newtonian study (2006)
Kupi, Gabor, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer
Compact object clusters are likely to exist in the centres of some galaxies because of mass segregation. The high densities and velocities reached in them need a better understanding. The formation...
Stellar remnants in galactic nuclei: mass segregation (2006)
Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, Vassiliki
The study of how stars distribute themselves around a massive black hole (MBH) in the center of a galaxy is an important prerequisite for the understanding of many galactic-center processes. These...
Dynamics of compact objects clusters: A post-Newtonian study (2006)
Kupi, Gabor, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer
Compact object clusters are likely to exist in the centre of some galaxies because of mass segregation. The high densities and velocities reached in them deserves a better understanding. The...
Gravitational waves from coalescing massive black holes in young dense clusters (2006)
HST observations reveal that young massive star clusters form in gas-rich environments like the Antenn{\ae} galaxy which will merge in collisional processes to form larger structures. These clusters...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Freitag, Marc
Observations suggest that star clusters often form in binaries or larger bound groups. Therefore, mergers between two clusters are likely to occur. If these clusters both harbor an intermediate-mass...
Models of mass segregation at the Galactic centre (2006)
Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, Vassiliki
We study the process of mass segregation through 2-body relaxation in galactic nuclei with a central massive black hole (MBH). This study has bearing on a variety of astrophysical questions, from the...
The MODEST questions: challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research (2006)
Davies, Melvyn B., Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Bassa, Cees, Dale, Jim, De Angeli, Francesca, Freitag, Marc, ...
We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass...
Dynamics of dense star-gas systems: BHs and their precursors (2005)
This thesis embraces several aspects of theoretical stellar dynamics in clusters, both analytically and numerically. We try to elucidate the phenomena currently observed in all types of galaxies,...
Dynamics of dense gas-star systems : Black holes and their precursors (2004)
This thesis embraces several aspects of theoretical stellar dynamics in clusters, both analytically and numerically. We try to elucidate the phenomena currently observed in all types of galaxies,...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Freitag, Marc, Spurzem, Rainer
To be presented is a study of the secular evolution of a spherical stellar system with a central star-accreting black hole (BH) using the anisotropic gaseous model. This method solves numerically...
Dynamics of dense gas star systems black holes and their precursors / (2004)
Heidelberg, University, Diss., 2004 (Nicht für den Austausch).
Dynamics of dense gas-star systems : Black holes and their precursors (2004)
This thesis embraces several aspects of theoretical stellar dynamics in clusters, both analytically and numerically. We try to elucidate the phenomena currently observed in all types of galaxies,...
Stability and evolution of super-massive stars (SMS) (2003)
Just, Andreas, Amaro-Seoane, Pau
Highly condensed gaseous objects with masses larger than 5x10^4 M_sun are called super-massive stars. In the quasistationary contraction phase, the hydrostatic equilibrium is determined by radiation...
Super-massive stars: Radiative transfer (2003)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer, Just, Andreas
The concept of central super-massive stars (${\cal M} \ge 5 \times 10^4 M_{\odot}$, where ${\cal M}$ is the mass of the super-massive star) embedded in dense stellar systems was suggested as a...
Dense gas-star systems: Super-massive stars evolution (2002)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer
In the 60s and 70s super-massive central objects (from now onwards SMOs) were thought to be the main source of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) characteristics (luminosities of $L \approx 10^{12}...
Super-massive stars: Dense star-gas systems (2001)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer, Just, Andreas
We use a gaseous model and a semi-analytical approach to study the evolution of a super-massive central gaseous object (a super-massive star, (SMS from now on) in an AGN and its evolution by...
The loss-cone problem in dense nuclei (2001)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer
We address the classical problem of star accretion onto a supermassive central gaseous object in a galactic nucleus. The resulting supermassive central gas-star object is assumed to be located at the...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Coleman Miller, M., Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...