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Scott Tremaine

Researcher at Institute for Advanced Study

Publications -  259
Citations -  46961

Scott Tremaine is an academic researcher from Institute for Advanced Study. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Planet. The author has an hindex of 90, co-authored 256 publications receiving 44123 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott Tremaine include Canadian Institute for Advanced Research & Princeton University.

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The Demography of massive dark objects in galaxy centers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors constructed dynamical models for a sample of 36 nearby galaxies with Hubble Space Telescope (HST) photometry and ground-based kinematics, assuming that each galaxy is axisymmetric, with a two-integral distribution function, arbitrary inclination angle, a position-independent stellar mass-to-light ratio, and a central massive dark object of arbitrary mass M•.
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The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres

TL;DR: In this article, the authors constructed dynamical models for a sample of 36 nearby galaxies with Hubble Space Telescope photometry and ground-based kinematics, assuming that each galaxy is axisymmetric, with a two-integral distribution function, arbitrary inclination angle, a position-independent stellar mass-to-light ratio Upsilon, and a central massive dark object of arbitrary mass M_bh.
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The slope of the black hole mass versus velocity dispersion correlation

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the range of slopes arises mostly due of sys- tematic differences in the velocity dispersions used by different groups for the same galaxies, and that one significant component of the difference results from Ferrarese & Merritt's extrapolation of central velocity dispersion to re= 8( re is the effective radius) using an empirical formula.
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Disk-Satellite Interactions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors calculate the rate at which angular momentum and energy are transferred between a disk and a satellite which orbit the same central mass, and show that substantial changes in both the structure of the disk and the orbit of Jupiter must have taken place on a time scale of a few thousand years.