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On the Formation of S-stars from a Recent Massive Black Hole Merger in the Galactic Center
Tatsuya Akiba, Smadar Naoz, Ann-Marie Madigan
The Galactic Center hosts a rotating disk of young stars between 0.05 and 0.5 pc of Sgr A*. The ``S-stars'' at a distance pc, however, are on eccentric orbits with nearly i…
Triple Evolution Pathways to Black Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binaries: Insights from V404 Cygni
Cheyanne Shariat, Smadar Naoz, Kareem El-Badry +5
A recent discovery shows that V404 Cygni, a prototypical black hole low-mass X-ray binary (BH-LMXB) is a hierarchical triple: the BH and donor star are orbited by a M$_{\odot…
The cold Jupiter eccentricity distribution is consistent with EKL driven by stellar companions
Grant C. Weldon, Smadar Naoz, Bradley M. S. Hansen
The large eccentricities of cold Jupiters and the existence of hot Jupiters have long challenged theories of planet formation. A proposed solution to both of these puzzles is high-…
The Stellar Initial Mass Function of Early Dark Matter-free Gas Objects
William Lake, Michael Y. Grudić, Smadar Naoz +6
Among the remarkable strides made by JWST is the discovery of the earliest star clusters found to date. These have been proposed as early progenitors of globular clusters, which ar…
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…
Two Novel Hot Jupiter Formation Pathways: How White Dwarf Kicks Shape the Hot Jupiter Population
Alexander P. Stephan, David V. Martin, Smadar Naoz +2
The origin of Hot Jupiters (HJs) is disputed between a variety of in situ and ex situ formation scenarios. One of the early proposed ex situ scenarios was the Eccentric Kozai-Lidov…