Close encounters of black hole - star binaries with stellar-mass black holes
arXiv:2304.01792 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stad1943
Abstract
Dynamical interactions involving binaries play a crucial role in the evolution of star clusters and galaxies. We continue our investigation of the hydrodynamics of three-body encounters, focusing on binary black hole (BBH) formation, stellar disruption, and electromagnetic (EM) emission in dynamical interactions between a BH-star binary and a stellar-mass BH, using the moving-mesh hydrodynamics code {\small AREPO}. This type of encounters can be divided into two classes depending on whether the final outcome includes BBHs. This outcome is primarily determined by which two objects meet at the first closest approach. BBHs are more likely to form when the star and the incoming BH encounter first with an impact parameter smaller than the binary's semimajor axis. In this case, the star is frequently disrupted. On the other hand, when the two BHs encounter first, frequent consequences are an orbit perturbation of the original binary or a binary member exchange. For the parameters chosen in this study, BBH formation, accompanied by stellar disruption, happens in roughly 1 out of 4 encounters. The close correlation between BBH formation and stellar disruption has possible implications for EM counterparts at the binary's merger. The BH that disrupts the star is promptly surrounded by an optically and geometrically thick disk with accretion rates exceeding the Eddington limit. If the debris disk cools fast enough to become long-lived, EM counterparts can be produced at the time of the BBH merger.
16 pages, 11 figures, 2 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS, movie here: https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLxLK3qI02cQfXhvhRZp9gkvts_E46t0kH/videos
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