Tal Alexander

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  Article: The Galactic Center as a laboratory for extreme mass ratio gravitational wave source dynamics

  Tal Alexander
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  ABSTRACT: The massive Galactic black hole and the stars around it are a unique laboratory for studying how relaxation processes lead to close interactions of stars and compact remnants with the central massive black hole, in particular those leading to the emission of gravitational waves. I review new results on the processes of strong mass segregation and loss-cone refilling by massive perturbers and resonant relaxation; describe observational evidence that these processes play a role in the Galactic Center and can be studied there; and discuss some of the implications for Extreme Mass Ration Inspiral event rates and their properties. Comment: 8 pp, 6 figs. Invited talk. To appear in the proceedings of the 2nd Kolkata conference on Observational Evidence for Black Holes in the Universe (2/2008), Ed. S. Chakrabarti (AIP) [typo in equation and notation corrected]
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