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Binary mergers in the centers of galaxies: synergy between stellar flybys and tidal fields
Mila Winter-Granic, Cristobal Petrovich, Valentín Peña-Donaire +1
Galactic centers are very dynamically active environments, often harbouring a nuclear star cluster and supermassive black hole at their cores. Binaries in these environments are su…
Eccentricity dynamics of wide binaries -- II. The effect of stellar encounters and constraints on formation channels
Chris Hamilton, Shaunak Modak
GAIA wide stellar binaries (separations AU) are observed to have a superthermal eccentricity distribution function (DF), well-fit by with $α…
Relativistic phase space diffusion of compact object binaries in stellar clusters and hierarchical triples
Chris Hamilton, Roman R. Rafikov
The LIGO/Virgo detections of compact object mergers have posed a challenge for theories of binary evolution and coalescence. One promising avenue for producing mergers dynamically…
The linear response of stellar systems does not diverge at marginal stability
Chris Hamilton, Tobias Heinemann
The linear response of a stellar system's gravitational potential to a perturbing mass comprises two distinct contributions. Most famously, the system will respond by forming a pol…
Wide binary stars formed in the turbulent interstellar medium
Siyao Xu, Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Chris Hamilton +1
The ubiquitous interstellar turbulence regulates star formation and the scaling relations between the initial velocity differences and the initial separations of stars. We propose…
Eccentricity dynamics of wide binaries -- I. The effect of Galactic tides
Shaunak Modak, Chris Hamilton
A major puzzle concerning the wide stellar binaries (semimajor axes \,AU) in the Solar neighborhood is the origin of their observed superthermal eccentricity distrib…