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…
astro-ph.SR2026
Understanding the impact of binary mass transfer in the accretor's measurable parameters
Magdalena Vilaxa-Campos, Nathan Leigh, Taeho Ryu
Binaries and higher order systems can experience mass transfer events between their components. The angular momentum carried by the gained mass can change the observable parameters…