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Star Clusters in Quasars: Bloated Stars as Broad Emission Line Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

R. C. Puetter
R. C. Puetter*
Affiliation:
The Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, The University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

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Many scenarios of the evolution of star clusters in the centers of galaxies involve the formation of a central supermassive object. Since black hole formation is not 100% efficient in mass usage, stars are left over. This paper investigates the properties of such stars and proposes that their externally heated atmospheres become “bloated” due to radiative forces from trapped line radiation. Such stars would swell to many times their normal diameters and acquire densities, sizes, and mean column masses typical of QSO/AGN emission line clouds (ELCs).

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Part 2: BLR and Variability
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 134: Active Galactic Nuclei , 1989 , pp. 137 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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