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SUMMARY:Carl Rodriguez (Carnegie Mellon University)
DTSTART:20200731T160000Z
DTEND:20200731T163000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Title: <a href="https://researchseminars.org/talk/CMU-TP/7/">M
 odeling Dense Star Clusters and the gravitational waves they create</a>\nb
 y Carl Rodriguez (Carnegie Mellon University) as part of Carnegie Mellon t
 heoretical physics\n\n\nAbstract\nThe lives of massive star clusters are i
 nevitably linked to the assembly and evolution of the galaxies they inhabi
 t. While significant progress has been made over the past several decades 
 at separately modeling both galaxy formation and the dynamics of collision
 al star clusters\, the connection between the two remains poorly understoo
 d. In this talk\, I will describe how we model dense star clusters\, both 
 analytically and numerically\, and what motivates our typical choices of i
 nitial conditions. I will then describe a recent project to model clusters
  self-consistently from collapsing giant molecular clouds in an MHD simula
 tion of a Milky Way-sized galaxy. Finally\, I will connect these results t
 o the binary black holes formed by isolated binaries and dense star cluste
 rs\, including GW190412\, a recently announced binary merger with unique m
 asses and spins.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/CMU-TP/7/
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