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A Formation Crisis of Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events
Zhen Pan, Dong Lai
A number of candidate repeating partial tidal disruption events (rpTDEs) have been reported in recent years. If these events are confirmed, the high fraction of observed rpTDEs amo…
Simulations of a Conducting Sphere Moving through Magnetized Plasma: Alfvén Wings, Slow Magnetosonic Wings, and Drag Force
Nicholas Corso, Dong Lai
Plasma-mediated interaction between astrophysical objects can play an important role and produce electromagnetic radiation in various binary systems, ranging from planet-moon and s…
Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Nuclear Star Clusters: A Combined Dynamical-Secular Channel for GW231123-like Events
Bin Liu, Dieran Wang, Dong Lai
The recent binary black hole (BH) merger GW231123, with both components likely in the high-mass gap and with high spins, challenges standard BH binary formation models. It is usual…
Equation of State of Decompressed Quark Matter, and Observational Signatures of Quark-Star Mergers
Zhiqiang Miao, Zhenyu Zhu, Dong Lai
Quark stars are challenging to confirm or exclude observationally because they can have similar masses and radii as neutron stars. By performing the first calculation of the non-eq…
Dynamical Friction Models for Black-Hole Binary Formation in AGN Disks
Kecheng Qian, Jiaru Li, Dong Lai
Stellar-mass black holes (sBH) embedded in gaseous disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be important sources of detectable gravitational radiation for LIGO/Virgo when they for…
Formation of Merging Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binaries by Gravitational Wave Emission in Active Galactic Nucleus Disks
Barak Rom, Re'em Sari, Dong Lai
Many stellar-mass Black Holes (sBHs) are expected to orbit supermassive black holes at galactic centers. For galaxies with Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), it is likely that the sBHs…