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Ram-pressure stripping of a kicked Hill sphere: Prompt electromagnetic emission from the merger of stellar mass black holes in an AGN accretion disk
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, I. Bartos +7
Accretion disks around supermassive black holes (SMBH) are promising sites for stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers due to mass segregation and merger acceleration by disk gas torq…
Fast spectrophotometry of WD 1145+017
P. Izquierdo, P. Rodríguez-Gil, B. T. Gänsicke +16
WD 1145+017 is currently the only white dwarf known to exhibit periodic transits of planetary debris as well as absorption lines from circumstellar gas. We present the first simult…
Compact dust concentration in the MWC 758 protoplanetary disk
S. Marino, S. Casassus, S. Perez +5
The formation of planetesimals requires that primordial dust grains grow from micron- to km-sized bodies. Dust traps caused by gas pressure maxima have been proposed as regions whe…
Rossby wave instability does not require sharp resistivity gradients
W. Lyra, N. Turner, C. McNally
Rossby wave instability (RWI) at dead zone boundaries may play an important role in planet formation. Viscous hydrodynamics results suggest RWI is excited only when the viscosity c…
Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks II. Model predictions & observational constraints
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, B. Kocsis +2
If intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) grow efficiently in gas disks around supermassive black holes, their host active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks should exhibit myriad observa…
Elliptic and magneto-elliptic instabilities of disk vortices
Wlad Lyra
Vortices are the fundamental units of turbulent flow. Understanding their stability properties therefore provides fundamental insights on the nature of turbulence itself. In this c…
Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks: I. Production & Growth
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, W. Lyra +1
Here we propose a mechanism for efficiently growing intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in disks around supermassive black holes. Stellar mass objects can efficiently agglomerate…