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Computer Simulation of the Evolution of Active AGN: Single Supermassive Star Versus a Cluster of Massive WR Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

R. Spurzem
Affiliation:
1Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Ohhausenstr. 40, D-2300 Kiel, F.R.G.
K. Herzig
Affiliation:
2Universitäts-Sternwarte, Geismarlandstr. 11, D-34OO Göttingen, F.R.G.

Abstract

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The evolution of gas and stars in galactic nuclei is reconsidered and numerical models of early evolutionary phases of galactic nuclei are discussed, in particular the evolution of a supermassive gaseous object as a hypothetical precursor of a supermassive black hole.

Type
Session VIII. Inventory and Distribution
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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