Pau Amaro-Seoane

Intermediate and extreme mass-ratio inspirals — astrophysics, science applications and detection using LISA (2007)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...

Black hole binaries with extreme (gtrsim104:1) or intermediate (~102–104:1) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the proposed...

Intermediate and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals -- Astrophysics, Science Applications and Detection using LISA (2007)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...

Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...

A comprehensive Nbody study of mass segregation in star clusters: Energy equipartition and escape (2007)

Khalisi, Emil, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer

We address the dynamical evolution of an isolated self--gravitating system with two stellar mass groups. We vary the individual ratio of the heavy to light bodies, $\mu$ from 1.25 to 50 and alter...

Intermediate and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals -- Astrophysics, Science Applications and Detection using LISA (2007)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...

Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...

Intermediate-mass black holes in colliding clusters: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astronomy (2006)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Freitag, Marc

Observations suggest that star clusters often form in binaries or larger bound groups. Therefore, mergers between two clusters are likely to occur. If these clusters both harbor an intermediate-mass...

Gravitational waves from coalescing massive black holes in young dense clusters (2006)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau

HST observations reveal that young massive star clusters form in gas-rich environments like the Antenn{\ae} galaxy which will merge in collisional processes to form larger structures. These clusters...

The MODEST questions: challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research (2006)

Davies, Melvyn B., Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Bassa, Cees, Dale, Jim, De Angeli, Francesca, Freitag, Marc, ...

We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass...

Models of mass segregation at the Galactic centre (2006)

Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, Vassiliki

We study the process of mass segregation through 2-body relaxation in galactic nuclei with a central massive black hole (MBH). This study has bearing on a variety of astrophysical questions, from the...

Stellar remnants in galactic nuclei: mass segregation (2006)

Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, Vassiliki

The study of how stars distribute themselves around a massive black hole (MBH) in the center of a galaxy is an important prerequisite for the understanding of many galactic-center processes. These...

A comprehensive Nbody study of mass segregation in star clusters: Energy equipartition and escape (2006)

Khalisi, Emil, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer

We address the dynamical evolution of an isolated self--gravitating system with two stellar mass groups. We vary the individual ratio of the heavy to light bodies, $\mu$ from 1.25 to 50 and alter...

Dynamics of compact objects clusters: A post-Newtonian study (2006)

Kupi, Gabor, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer

Compact object clusters are likely to exist in the centre of some galaxies because of mass segregation. The high densities and velocities reached in them deserves a better understanding. The...

Stellar remnants in galactic nuclei: mass segregation (2006)

Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, Vassiliki

The study of how stars distribute themselves around a massive black hole (MBH) in the center of a galaxy is an important prerequisite for the understanding of many galactic-center processes. These...

Dynamics of compact objects clusters: A post-Newtonian study (2006)

Kupi, Gabor, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer

Compact object clusters are likely to exist in the centre of some galaxies because of mass segregation. The high densities and velocities reached in them deserves a better understanding. The...

Gravitational waves from coalescing massive black holes in young dense clusters (2006)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau

HST observations reveal that young massive star clusters form in gas-rich environments like the Antenn{\ae} galaxy which will merge in collisional processes to form larger structures. These clusters...

Intermediate-mass black holes in colliding clusters: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astronomy (2006)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Freitag, Marc

Observations suggest that star clusters often form in binaries or larger bound groups. Therefore, mergers between two clusters are likely to occur. If these clusters both harbor an intermediate-mass...

Models of mass segregation at the Galactic centre (2006)

Freitag, Marc, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Kalogera, Vassiliki

We study the process of mass segregation through 2-body relaxation in galactic nuclei with a central massive black hole (MBH). This study has bearing on a variety of astrophysical questions, from the...

The MODEST questions: challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research (2006)

Davies, Melvyn B., Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Bassa, Cees, Dale, Jim, De Angeli, Francesca, Freitag, Marc, ...

We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass...

Dynamics of dense star-gas systems: BHs and their precursors (2005)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau

This thesis embraces several aspects of theoretical stellar dynamics in clusters, both analytically and numerically. We try to elucidate the phenomena currently observed in all types of galaxies,...

Dynamics of dense gas-star systems : Black holes and their precursors (2004)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau

This thesis embraces several aspects of theoretical stellar dynamics in clusters, both analytically and numerically. We try to elucidate the phenomena currently observed in all types of galaxies,...

Accretion of stars on to a massive black hole: A realistic diffusion model and numerical studies (2004)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Freitag, Marc, Spurzem, Rainer

To be presented is a study of the secular evolution of a spherical stellar system with a central star-accreting black hole (BH) using the anisotropic gaseous model. This method solves numerically...

Dynamics of dense gas star systems black holes and their precursors / (2004)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau.

Heidelberg, University, Diss., 2004 (Nicht für den Austausch).

Stability and evolution of super-massive stars (SMS) (2003)

Just, Andreas, Amaro-Seoane, Pau

Highly condensed gaseous objects with masses larger than 5x10^4 M_sun are called super-massive stars. In the quasistationary contraction phase, the hydrostatic equilibrium is determined by radiation...

Super-massive stars: Radiative transfer (2003)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer, Just, Andreas

The concept of central super-massive stars (${\cal M} \ge 5 \times 10^4 M_{\odot}$, where ${\cal M}$ is the mass of the super-massive star) embedded in dense stellar systems was suggested as a...

Dense gas-star systems: Super-massive stars evolution (2002)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer

In the 60s and 70s super-massive central objects (from now onwards SMOs) were thought to be the main source of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) characteristics (luminosities of $L \approx 10^{12}...

Super-massive stars: Dense star-gas systems (2001)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer, Just, Andreas

We use a gaseous model and a semi-analytical approach to study the evolution of a super-massive central gaseous object (a super-massive star, (SMS from now on) in an AGN and its evolution by...

The loss-cone problem in dense nuclei (2001)

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Spurzem, Rainer

We address the classical problem of star accretion onto a supermassive central gaseous object in a galactic nucleus. The resulting supermassive central gas-star object is assumed to be located at the...

Intermediate and Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals -- Astrophysics, Science Applications and Detection using LISA

Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Coleman Miller, M., Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...

Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...