2 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
Intermediate States in Chaotic Triple Evolution and Applications to Black Hole Merger Statistics
Dina Meylakh, Nicholas C. Stone, Nathan W. C. Leigh
Three-body interactions exhibit phases of strong chaotic evolution as well as hierarchical motion where one body separates from a binary and follows a hyperbolic or elliptic trajec…
hep-th2026
Tidal Response and Thermodynamics of Black Holes
Itamar Cohen, Dina Meylakh, Michael Smolkin +1
In this work, we revisit black hole Love numbers from two complementary perspectives. First, we develop a manifestly gauge-invariant framework that directly integrates out the shor…