BIB-VERSION:: AST-PP-v1.0
ID:: epreps.stsci//prep1212
ENTRY:: March 9, 1998
TITLE::  Violent Relaxation around a Massive Black Hole 
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AUTHOR:: Stiavelli, M.
AFFIL:: Space Telescope Science Institute    3700 San Martin Drive    Baltimore, MD 21218    USA and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri, 156126, Pisa,  Italy On assignment from the Space Science Department of the European Space Agency
DATE:: January 1998
JOURNAL:: To appear in:  The Astrophysical Journal (Letters)
SUBMITTED:: 23 November 1997
ACCEPTED:: 30 December 1997 
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COPYRIGHT:: Copyright 1998 The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
LANGUAGE:: English
ABSTRACT::

I present galaxy models resulting from violent relaxation in the
presence of a pre-existing black hole. The models are computed
by maximizing the entropy of the stellar dynamical system. 
I show that their properties are very similar to those of
adiabatic growth models for a suitable choice of parameters.
This suggests that observations of nuclear light profiles and
kinematics alone may not be sufficient to discriminate between
scenarios where a black hole grows adiabatically in the core of
a galaxy, and scenarios where the black hole formation preceeds
galaxy formation.

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