14 papers
Stellar discs and intermediate-mass black holes in galactic nuclei I. Fragmenting the disc in an isotropic stellar potential
Taras Panamarev, Xiang Zou, Bence Kocsis
The origin of the complex orbital structure of young massive stars at the Galactic centre remains an open question. If these stars formed in a single episode from a gaseous accreti…
Extracting Astrophysical Information of Highly-Eccentric Binaries in the Millihertz Gravitational Wave Band
Zeyuan Xuan, Smadar Naoz, Alvin K. Y. Li +6
Wide, highly eccentric () compact binaries can naturally arise as progenitors of gravitational wave (GW) mergers. These systems are expected to have a significant population…
Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Highly-Eccentric Stellar-Mass Binaries in the Milli-hertz Band
Zeyuan Xuan, Smadar Naoz, Bence Kocsis +1
Many gravitational wave (GW) sources are expected to have non-negligible eccentricity in the millihertz band. These highly eccentric compact object binaries may commonly serve as a…
Detecting Gravitational Wave Bursts From Stellar-Mass Binaries in the Milli-hertz Band
Zeyuan Xuan, Smadar Naoz, Bence Kocsis +1
The dynamical formation channels of gravitational wave (GW) sources typically involve a stage when the compact object binary source interacts with the environment, which may excite…
Black holes as telescopes: Discovering supermassive binaries through quasi-periodic lensed starlight
Hanxi Wang, Miguel Zumalacárregui, Bence Kocsis
Supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary systems are unavoidable outcomes of galaxy mergers. Their dynamics encode information about their formation and growth, the composition of the…
Angular-momentum pairs in spherical systems: applications to the Galactic centre
Taras Panamarev, Yonadav Barry Ginat, Bence Kocsis
Consider a system of point masses in a spherical potential. In such systems objects execute planar orbits covering two-dimensional rings or annuli, represented by the angular-momen…