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Hydrodynamical Evolution of Black-Hole Binaries Embedded in AGN Discs: III. The Effects of Viscosity
Rixin Li, Dong Lai
Stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs offer a distinct dynamical channel to produce black hole mergers detected in gravitational wa…
Evolution of inspiralling neutron star binaries: effects of tidal interactions and orbital eccentricities
Jie-Shuang Wang, Dong Lai
Neutron star (NS) binaries formed dynamically may have significant eccentricities while emitting gravitational waves (GWs) in the LIGO/VIRGO band. We study tidal effects in such ec…
Hierarchical Black-Hole Mergers in Multiple Systems: Constrain the Formation of GW190412, GW190814 and GW190521-like events
Bin Liu, Dong Lai
The merging black-hole (BH) binaries GW190412, GW190814 and GW190521 from the third LIGO/VIRGO observing run exhibit some extraordinary properties, including highly asymmetric mass…
Tidal Dissipation Impact on the Eccentric Onset of Common Envelope Phases in Massive Binary Star Systems
Michelle Vick, Morgan MacLeod, Dong Lai +1
Tidal dissipation due to turbulent viscosity in the convective regions of giant stars plays an important role in shaping the orbits of pre-common envelope systems. Such systems are…
Merging Compact Binaries Near a Rotating Supermassive Black Hole: Eccentricity Excitation due to Apsidal Precession Resonance
Bin Liu, Dong Lai
We study the dynamics of merging compact binaries near a rotating supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a hierarchical triple configuration. We include various general relativistic eff…
Circumbinary Accretion from Finite and Infinite Disks
Diego Muñoz, Dong Lai, Kaitlin Kratter +1
We carry out 2D viscous hydrodynamics simulations of circumbinary disk (CBD) accretion using {\footnotesize AREPO}. We resolve the accretion flow from a large-scale CBD down to the…