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Relativistic Effects on Circumbinary Disk Evolution: Breaking the Polar Alignment around Eccentric Black Hole Binary Systems
Anna C. Childs, Rebecca G. Martin, C. J. Nixon +4
We study the effects of general relativity (GR) on the evolution and alignment of circumbinary disks around binaries on all scales. We implement relativistic apsidal precession of…
Mergers of black hole binaries driven by misaligned circumbinary discs
Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen Lepp, Bing Zhang +2
With hydrodynamical simulations we examine the evolution of a highly misaligned circumbinary disc around a black hole binary including the effects of general relativity. We show th…
Black hole mergers driven by a captured low-mass companion
Stephen Lepp, Rebecca G. Martin, Bing Zhang
Increased eccentricity of a black hole binary leads to reduced merger times. With n-body simulations and analytic approximations including the effects of general relativity (GR), w…