Stars & Singularities



Table of Contents



001. Stars and Singularities

002. Singularities

003. 1: Stars near a BH

004. Why stars?

005. Young stars - old stars

006. Nature vs Nurture

007. Collisions: dynamics & evolution

008. Physical scales: time

009. Physical scales: length

010. Relaxed stellar system with MBH

011. The stellar distribution function

012. Summary: Stars near a BH

013. 2: The stellar collider

014. Cusp or core?

015. The collision rate

016. Star counts

017. The stellar distribution

018. Modes of collisional destruction

019. Collisional destruction of giants

020. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

021. Exotic object formation

022. Tidal spin-up by collisions

023. BH-MS collision

024. MS-MS collision

025. Stellar spin near the BH

026. Tidal scattering by the BH

027. MBH-MS tide

028. MBH-MS tide (zoom)

029. Summary: Stellar collisions

030. 3: The Gravitational Telescope

031. Gravitational lensing in the GC

032. Lensing by a point mass

033. 2 lensed images

034. Pinpointing the BH

035. Modes of detection

036. Microlensing lightcurve

037. X-section, duration, amplification

038. Optical depth - Lensing probability

039. Lensing event rate

040. Were lensing flares observed?

041. Magnification bias

042. Beyond the point lens assumption

043. Enhanced BH-star lensing

044. Summary: Gravitational lensing

045. Summary: Stars very near the GC BH