Formation of Accretion Disks around Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Ultra Compact Dwarf Galaxies and Nuclear Stellar Clusters

arXiv:2608.25856 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-26

Updated: 2026-08-26

Comments: 22 pages, 26 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Initial Mass Function (IMF) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A Supermassive Black Hole in a Diminutive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy Discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU

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