The formation and observational signatures of a new class of compact stellar-dynamical populations: the dark clusters

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Pavel Kroupa
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2012 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 210669755

• Final Report Year: 2018

Final Report Abstract

Dark star clusters have been shown to be a natural consequence of current knowledge of stellar evolution and stellar dynamics and are now known to be more abundant in low-metallicity dwarf galaxies, provided the kick velocities are not large. The future will see further specifications of the DSC appearance in terms of the surface brightness and velocity dispersion as potential diapnostics, and observational strategies need to be applied to find explicit examples.

Publications

• 2017. Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters and their role in gravitational-wave generation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 467, 524-539
  Banerjee, S.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3392)