Detection of IMBHs from microlensing in globular clusters

Safonova, M; Rahvar, S; Bond, I; Hearnshaw, J; Stalin, C. S

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dc.contributor.author	Safonova, M
dc.contributor.author	Rahvar, S
dc.contributor.author	Bond, I
dc.contributor.author	Hearnshaw, J
dc.contributor.author	Stalin, C. S
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-04T10:09:55Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-04T10:09:55Z
dc.date.issued	2008-10
dc.identifier.citation	Chakrabarti, Sandip K. and Majumdar, Archan S. eds., Observational evidence for black holes in the universe., Proceedings of the 2nd Kolkata Conference on Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe held in Kolkata India, 10 - 15 February 2008 and the Satellite Meeting on Black Holes, Neutron stars, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Gamma-Ray Bursts held 16 - 17 February, 2008, pp. 121 - 126	en
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-7354-0582-0
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/4705
dc.description.abstract	Globular clusters have been long predicted to host intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in their centres. The growing evidence that some/all Galactic globular clusters (GCs) could harbour middle range (10/sup2-10/sup4 M/subsolar) black holes, just as galaxies do, stimulates the searches and the development of new methods for proving their existence. Most of the attempts in search of the central black holes (BHs) are indirect and present enormous observational difficulties due to the crowding of stars in the GCs cores. Here we propose another method of detection-the microlensing of the cluster stars by the central BH	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	American Institute of Physics	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 1053
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AIPC.1053..121S	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3009470	en
dc.rights	© American Institute of Physics	en
dc.subject	Globular Star Clusters	en
dc.subject	Gravitational Waves	en
dc.subject	Black Holes	en
dc.subject	Galaxies	en
dc.title	Detection of IMBHs from microlensing in globular clusters	en
dc.type	Article	en