In article <mt2.0-13665-1052392…@sshserv.aei.mpg.de>, Hieronymous707 wrote:
>>From: Ashok Prasad seekas…@yahoo.com
>>Hi. I am looking for summaries of the current state of the
>>observational evidence for black holes, especially stellar mass black
>>holes where I believe the evidence is of better resolution.
>hth:
>http://www-int.stsci.edu/~marel/m15release.html
I don’t think this one does help — the authors had to more or less
retract their claim of detecting a black hole in the center of M15, I believe.
[[Mod.note -- Looking at the STSCI press release, I was pleased to see
that they actually have a prominent section "Alternative Scientific
Interpretations of the data:" with links to 3 astro-ph preprints
(alas their link for the 2nd one mistakenly gives the 1st's number):
astro-ph/0210158 (Gerssen, van der Marel, et al.)
astro-ph/0210588 (Dull et al.)
astro-ph/0210133 (Baumgardt et al.)
-- jt]]
>From: Stuart Levy sl…@niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu
>I don’t think this one does help — the authors had to more or less
>retract their claim of detecting a black hole in the center of M15, I
>believe.
>[[Mod.note -- Looking at the STSCI press release, I was pleased to see
>that they actually have a prominent section "Alternative Scientific
>Interpretations of the data:" with links to 3 astro-ph preprints
>(alas their link for the 2nd one mistakenly gives the 1st's number):
>astro-ph/0210158 (Gerssen, van der Marel, et al.)
>astro-ph/0210588 (Dull et al.)
>astro-ph/0210133 (Baumgardt et al.)
>-- jt]]
You’re probably right, but that’s not what I got from the presentation on
"Black Holes in Globular Clusters and Galaxies" at STSI Spring Symposium last
week. Please don’t get the wrong impression. My brother-in-law is the
scientist. I was just an ignorant bystander, fortunate to attend with him.
>From: Hieronymous707 hieronymous…@aol.com
>>From: Stuart Levy sl…@niri.ncsa.uiuc.edu
>>I don’t think this one does help — the authors had to more or less
>>retract their claim of detecting a black hole in the center of M15, I
>>believe.
Below are links to Karl Gebhardt (University of Texas), and an audio file
lecture by him on the "Status on the Observational Evidence for Black Holes in
Globular Clusters". Worth a listen, if you have a few minutes.
hth:
http://hoku.as.utexas.edu/~gebhardt/
http://tinyurl.com/bi5e
-hi-