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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 2(776), p. 118, 2013

DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/776/2/118

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Do Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Exist in Globular Clusters?

Journal article published in 2013 by Mou-Yuan Sun ORCID, Ya-Ling Jin, Wei-Min Gu, Tong Liu, Da-Bin Lin, Ju-Fu Lu
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in globular clusters (GCs) remains a crucial problem. Searching IMBHs in GCs reveals a discrepancy between radio observations and dynamical modelings: the upper mass limits constrained by radio observations are systematically lower than that of dynamical modelings. One possibility for such a discrepancy is that, as we suggest in this work, there exist outflows in accretion flows. Our results indicate that, for most sources, current radio observations cannot rule out the possibility that IMBHs may exist in GCs. In addition, we adopt an \dot{M}-L_{R} relation to revisit this issue, which confirms the results obtained by the Fundamental Plane relation. ; Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ