2 papers
astro-ph.GA2026
Binary disruptions driven by massive disks around massive black holes
Mark Dodici
Accretion disks around massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei can contain significant mass, in which case their non-spherical potentials exert significant torques on single…
astro-ph.GA2025
Dynamical evolution of stellar binaries in galactic centers
Mark Dodici, Scott Tremaine, Yanqin Wu
Stellar binaries in galactic centers are relevant to several observable phenomena, including hypervelocity stars, X-ray binaries, and mergers of stars and compact objects; however,…