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Galactic bar resonances with diffusion: an analytic model with implications for bar-dark matter halo dynamical friction
Chris Hamilton, Elizabeth A. Tolman, Lev Arzamasskiy +1
The secular evolution of disk galaxies is largely driven by resonances between the orbits of 'particles' (stars or dark matter) and the rotation of non-axisymmetric features (spira…
Anatomy of a slow merger: dissecting secularly-driven inspirals of LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave sources
Chris Hamilton, Roman R. Rafikov
The dozens of compact object mergers detected by LIGO/Virgo raise a key theoretical question: how do initially wide binaries shrink sufficiently quickly that they are able to merge…
Wide twin binaries are extremely eccentric: evidence of twin binary formation in circumbinary disks
Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Kareem El-Badry, Hans-Walter Rix +3
The Gaia mission recently revealed an excess population of equal-mass "twin" wide binaries, with mass ratio , extending to separations of at least 1000 AU. The origi…
On the phase-mixed eccentricity and inclination distributions of wide binaries in the Galaxy
Chris Hamilton
Modern observational surveys allow us to probe the phase space distribution function (DF) of wide binaries in the Solar neighbourhood. This DF exhibits non-trivial features, in par…