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New Dynamical Channel: Wide Binaries in the Galactic Center as a Source of Binary Interactions
Erez Michaely, Smadar Naoz
The inner in the galactic center is dense with stars and a dynamically hot environment. Here, we focus on wide binaries as a source of tidally or collisional interactio…
Natal Kicks from the Galactic Center and Implications on their Environment and the Roman Space Telescope
Carlos Jurado, Smadar Naoz, Casey Y. Lam +1
Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, harbor a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) weighing millions to billions of solar masses. Surrounding these SMBHs are dense regions of…
The Supersonic Project: Lighting up the faint end of the JWST UV luminosity function
Claire E. Williams, William Lake, Smadar Naoz +9
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is capable of probing extremely early eras of our Universe when the supersonic relative motions between dark matter and baryonic overdensities…
Detecting Gravitational Wave Bursts From Stellar-Mass Binaries in the Milli-hertz Band
Zeyuan Xuan, Smadar Naoz, Bence Kocsis +1
The dynamical formation channels of gravitational wave (GW) sources typically involve a stage when the compact object binary source interacts with the environment, which may excite…
Objects and primordial black holes
Marcos M. Flores, Alexander Kusenko, Andrea M. Ghez +1
We suggest that " objects" recently discovered in the Galactic Center may be clouds of gas bound by the gravitational field of stellar-mass black holes produced in the interacti…
Constraining a companion of the galactic center black hole, Sgr A*
Clifford M. Will, Smadar Naoz, Aurélien Hees +4
We use 23 years of astrometric and radial velocity data on the orbit of the star S0-2 to constrain a hypothetical intermediate-mass black hole orbiting the massive black hole Sgr A…