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Breaking boundaries: extending the orbit-averaged Fokker-Planck equation inside the loss cone
Luca Broggi
In this Letter, we present a new formulation of loss cone theory as a reaction-diffusion system, which accounts for loss cone events through a sink term and can be orbit-averaged.…
astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited
Hanging on the cliff: Extreme mass ratio inspiral formation with local two-body relaxation and post-Newtonian dynamics
Davide Mancieri, Luca Broggi, Matteo Bonetti +1
Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are anticipated to be primary gravitational wave sources for LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna). They form in dense nuclear clusters whe…
astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited
Repeating partial disruptions and two-body relaxation
Luca Broggi, Nicholas C. Stone, Taeho Ryu +4
Two-body relaxation may drive stars onto near-radial orbits around a massive black hole, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE). In some circumstances, stars are unlikely to u…