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Unlocking the QPE Mystery: Star-Disk Collisions in Realistic AGN Disks
Zhaohuan Zhu, Xiaoshan Huang, Yan-Fei Jiang +1
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are luminous, recurring soft X-ray outbursts observed in the nuclei of low-mass galaxies. They display two remarkable trends: outburst durations are…
Resolving Oblique Star-Disk Collisions in Quasi-Periodic Eruptions: Numerical Requirements and the Importance of Geometry
Shunquan Huang, Xiaoshan Huang, Zhaohuan Zhu +1
Star-disk collisions have been proposed as a promising mechanism for producing quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) in galactic nuclei. Because the stellar atmospheric scale height is o…
Relativistic Effects on Circumbinary Disk Evolution: Breaking the Polar Alignment around Eccentric Black Hole Binary Systems
Anna C. Childs, Rebecca G. Martin, C. J. Nixon +4
We study the effects of general relativity (GR) on the evolution and alignment of circumbinary disks around binaries on all scales. We implement relativistic apsidal precession of…