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astro-ph.GA2021
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…
astro-ph.GA2017★ 56 cited
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…