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astro-ph.GA2025
Gas meets Kozai: the influence of a gas-rich accretion disc on hierarchical triples undergoing von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai oscillations
Yubo Su, Connar Rowan, Mor Rozner
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) consist of a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) embedded in a region with both high gas and stellar densities: the gas is present as a thin accret…
astro-ph.GA2025
Prompt gravitational-wave mergers aided by gas in Active Galactic Nuclei: The hydrodynamics of binary-single black hole scatterings
Connar Rowan, Henry Whitehead, Gaia Fabj +4
Black hole binary systems embedded in AGN discs have been proposed as a source of the observed gravitational waves (GWs) from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. Studies have indicated binary-single…
astro-ph.GA2023
Gas Assisted Binary Black Hole Formation in AGN Discs
Henry Whitehead, Connar Rowan, Tjarda Boekholt +1
We investigate close encounters by stellar mass black holes (BHs) in the gaseous discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) as a potential formation channel of binary black holes (BBHs)…