No evidence for IMBHs in {omega} Cen/NGC6624 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Baumgardt H.
  2. He C.
  3. Sweet S.M.
  4. Drinkwater M.
  5. Sollima A.
  6. Hurley J.,Usher C.
  7. Kamann S.
  8. Dalgleish H.
  9. Dreizler S.
  10. Husser T.-O.
  11. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We compare the results of a large grid of N-body simulations with the surface brightness and velocity dispersion profiles of the globular clusters {omega} Cen and NGC 6624. Our models include clusters with varying stellar-mass black hole retention fractions and varying masses of a central intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH). We find that an ~45000M_{sun}_ IMBH, whose presence has been suggested based on the measured velocity dispersion profile of {omega} Cen, predicts the existence of about 20 fast-moving, m>0.5M_{sun}_, main-sequence stars with a (1D) velocity v>60km/s in the central 20arcsec of {omega} Cen. However, no such star is present in the HST/ACS proper motion catalogue of Bellini et al. (2017ApJ...842....6B, Cat. J/ApJ/842/6), strongly ruling out the presence of a massive IMBH in the core of {omega} Cen. Instead, we find that all available data can be fitted by a model that contains 4.6 per cent of the mass of {omega} Cen in a centrally concentrated cluster of stellar-mass black holes. We show that this mass fraction in stellar-mass BHs is compatible with the predictions of stellar evolution models of massive stars. We also compare our grid of N-body simulations with NGC 6624, a cluster recently claimed to harbour a 20000M_{sun}_ black hole based on timing observations of millisecond pulsars. However, we find that models with M_IMBH_>1000M_{sun}_ IMBHs are incompatible with the observed velocity dispersion and surface brightness profile of NGC 6624, ruling out the presence of a massive IMBH in this cluster. Models without an IMBH provide again an excellent fit to NGC 6624.

Keywords
  1. radial-velocity
  2. infrared-astronomy
  3. spectroscopy
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. globular-star-clusters
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019MNRAS.488.5340B
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74885340

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2023-02-09T12:54:40Z
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2023-02-09T12:54:40Z
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