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Photometry and Kinematics of Self-Gravitating Eccentric Nuclear Disks
Heather N. Wernke, Ann-Marie Madigan
The Andromeda Galaxy hosts an elongated nucleus with (at least) two distinct brightness peaks. The double nucleus can be explained by the projection of a thick, apsidally-aligned e…
A Lopsided Outer Solar System
Alexander Zderic, Maria Tiongco, Angela Collier +3
Axisymmetric disks of eccentric orbits in near-Keplerian potentials are unstable to an out-of-plane buckling. Recently, Zderic et al. (2020) showed that an idealized disk saturates…
The Effect of General Relativistic Precession on Tidal Disruption Events from Eccentric Nuclear Disks
Heather N. Wernke, Ann-Marie Madigan
An eccentric nuclear disk consists of stars moving on apsidally-aligned orbits around a central black hole. The secular gravitational torques that dynamically stabilize these disks…
Dynamical Properties of Eccentric Nuclear Disks: Stability, Longevity, and Implications for Tidal Disruption Rates in Post-Merger Galaxies
Ann-Marie Madigan, Andrew Halle, Mackenzie Moody +3
In some galaxies, the stars orbiting the supermassive black hole take the form of an eccentric nuclear disk, in which every star is on a coherent, apsidally-aligned orbit. The most…
A comprehensive search for stellar bowshock nebulae in the Milky Way: a catalog of 709 mid-infrared selected candidates
Henry A. Kobulnicky, William T. Chick, Danielle P. Schurhammer +8
We identify 709 arc-shaped mid-infrared nebula in 24 micron Spitzer Space Telescope or 22 micron Wide Field Infrared Explorer surveys of the Galactic Plane as probable dusty inters…