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A Diverse Distribution of Black Hole Spins from Stable Mass Transfer
Linhao Ma, Jakub Klencki, Eliot Quataert +1
Gravitational wave observations have found over 300 merging binary black holes, yet their origins remain uncertain. Recent work showed that many may come from isolated stellar bina…
Star-Disk Collisions II: Debris Stream Dynamics and Implications for QPEs and Other Transients Near SMBHs
Philippe Z. Yao, Eliot Quataert, Yan-Fei Jiang +1
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeating soft X-ray nuclear transients with recurrence times of hours-days and flare duty cycles of 10-20%. Many aspects of QPEs can be m…
Mass Transfer in Tidally Heated Stars Orbiting Massive Black Holes and Implications for Repeating Nuclear Transients
Philippe Z. Yao, Eliot Quataert
The structure of stars orbiting close to supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be dramatically modified by tidal heating, which can in principle dissipate an energy much larger than…
Red Giant Destruction by Stellar and Black Hole Collisions in Galactic Nuclei
Barak Rom, Eliot Quataert
We study the impact of collisions involving red giants (RGs) in the dense stellar environments of galactic nuclei. We analytically estimate when collisions with main-sequence stars…
Black Hole Polarimetry III: Universal Polarization of Synchrotron Radiation at the Horizon
Andrew Chael, Alexandru Lupsasca, George N. Wong +2
Polarized images of a black hole encode the direction of electromagnetic energy flow near its event horizon. Measuring polarization from near-horizon emission can determine whether…
Spectral Appearance of Self-gravitating Disks Powered by Stellar Objects: Universal Effective Temperature in the Optical Continuum and Application to Little Red Dots
Yi-Xian Chen, Hanpu Liu, Ruancun Li +6
We revisit the spectral appearance of extended self-gravitating accretion disks surrounding compact central objects such as supermassive black holes. Using dust-poor opacities, we…