3 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
Inclination Diffusion in Relativistic Loss Cones
Wenkang Xin
Relativistic capture and tidal disruption around a spinning black hole depend on both the magnitude and direction of the star's angular momentum, yet loss-cone models often assume…
astro-ph.HE2026
A Semi-Analytical Loss Cone Theory for Tidal Disruption Event Rates Around Kerr Black Holes
Wenkang Xin
A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star is scattered onto a near-radial orbit and is torn apart by a black hole (BH)'s tidal field. The angular momentum threshold for dis…
gr-qc2025
The relativistic tidal tensor: general solutions for stationary axisymmetric spacetimes and the Hills mass of naked singularities
Wenkang Xin, Andrew Mummery
The tidal forces experienced on an orbit contain, in principle, information about the underlying spacetime an object is moving through. Astronomical observations often probe the pr…