2 papers
astro-ph.HE2024
Decoupling of a supermassive black hole binary from its magnetically arrested circumbinary accretion disk
Elias R. Most, Hai-Yang Wang
Merging supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries will likely be surrounded by a circumbinary accretion disk. Close to merger, gravitational radiation-driven inspiral will happen on…
astro-ph.SR2024
The Santa Barbara Binary-Disk Code Comparison
Paul C. Duffell, Alexander J. Dittmann, Daniel J. D'Orazio +13
We have performed numerical calculations of a binary interacting with a gas disk, using eleven different numerical methods and a standard binary-disk setup. The goal of this study…