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The Irreversible Depletion of Dark Matter Spikes by Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Charlie Sharpe, Yonadav Barry Ginat, Thomas F. M. Spieksma +2
Dense dark matter spikes around massive black holes (MBHs) have been widely predicted to produce gravitational-wave dephasing in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that are poten…
Hydrodynamic Simulations of Eccentric Black Hole Encounters in AGN Discs
Andrew Imai, Henry Whitehead, Bence Kocsis
We investigate close encounters between stellar-mass black holes (BHs) in the gaseous discs of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), during which binary black holes (BBHs) may form. We pe…
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…
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…
Hydrodynamic simulations of black hole evolution in AGN discs II: inclination damping for partially embedded satellites
Henry Whitehead, Connar Rowan, Bence Kocsis
We investigate the evolution of black holes on orbits with small inclinations () to the gaseous discs of active galactic nuclei. We perform 3D adiabatic hydrodynamic s…
Hydrodynamic simulations of black hole evolution in AGN discs I: orbital alignment of highly inclined satellites
Connar Rowan, Henry Whitehead, Gaia Fabj +3
The frequency of compact object interactions in AGN discs is naturally tied to the number of objects embedded within it. We investigate the evolution of black holes in the nuclear…