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Dynamical evolution of stellar binaries in galactic centers
Mark Dodici, Scott Tremaine, Yanqin Wu
Stellar binaries in galactic centers are relevant to several observable phenomena, including hypervelocity stars, X-ray binaries, and mergers of stars and compact objects; however,…
Free Floating or Merely Detached?
Sam Hadden, Yanqin Wu
Microlensing surveys suggest the presence of a surprisingly large population of free-floating planets, with a rate of about two Neptunes per star. The origin of such objects is not…
Bouncing Grains Keep Protoplanetary Disks Bright
Yansong Qian, Yanqin Wu
Proto-planetary disks display the so-called size-luminosity relation, where their mm-wavelength fluxes scale linearly with their emitting areas. This suggests that these disks are…
Testing tidal theory using Gaia binaries: the red giant branch
Janosz W. Dewberry, Yanqin Wu
Tidal interaction is a major ingredient in the theory of binary evolution. Here, we study tidal circularization in binaries with red giant primaries. We compute the tidal evolution…