IY Lyr is a thick-disk RRc star with a 1.37 solar-mass companion most likely a neutron star in a 3.94-year eccentric orbit, confirmed by photometry, spectroscopy, and astrometry.
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Simulations indicate stellar collisions dominate intermediate-mass black hole formation across cluster types, with potential to explain local globular cluster candidates and predict wandering IMBHs in Milky Way-like galaxies.
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IY Lyr: A Thick-Disk first-overtone RR Lyrae Star with a Possible Neutron Star Companion
IY Lyr is a thick-disk RRc star with a 1.37 solar-mass companion most likely a neutron star in a 3.94-year eccentric orbit, confirmed by photometry, spectroscopy, and astrometry.
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Seeds to success: growing heavy black holes in dense star clusters
Simulations indicate stellar collisions dominate intermediate-mass black hole formation across cluster types, with potential to explain local globular cluster candidates and predict wandering IMBHs in Milky Way-like galaxies.