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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 589, Issue 1, Pages L25-L28Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/375802
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black hole physics; globular clusters : individual (G1); methods : n-body simulations; stellar dynamics
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We present a comparison between the observational data on the kinematical structure of G1 in M31, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph instruments, and the results of dynamical simulations carried out using the special purpose computer GRAPE-6. We have obtained good fits for models starting from single-cluster King model initial conditions and even better fits when starting our simulations with a dynamically constructed merger product of two star clusters. In the latter case, the results from our simulations are in excellent agreement with the observed profiles of luminosity, velocity dispersion, rotation, and ellipticity. We obtain a mass-to-light ratio of M/L = 4.0 +/- 0.4 and a total cluster mass of M = (8 +/- 1) x 10(6) M-.. Given that our dynamical model can fit all available observational data very well, there seems to be no need to invoke the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole in the center of G1.
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