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Nonlinear Tides of Binary Neutron Stars

Guangzhou Guo, Zhen Pan

Nonlinear tides couple stellar oscillations and reshape the gravitational wave (GW) signal from inspiralling binaries. We present hydrodynamic simulations of nonlinear tides in ins…

astro-ph.HE2026

No evidence for a supermassive black hole binary in GSN 069

Yuhe Zeng, Zhen Pan, Bin Liu +1

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurrent soft X-ray flares from galactic nuclei and provide a new time-domain probe of stellar-mass objects (SMOs) orbiting supermassive black…

astro-ph.HE2026

Population statistics of nanohertz gravitational wave sources

Jiming Yu, Zhen Pan, Xiao Xue +1

The recent detection of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) background by pulsar timing arrays (PTA) has sparked extensive discussions regarding its origin-whether it arises from a…

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Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals in Light of Quasi-periodic Eruptions: Milli-Hertz Gravitational Wave Background

Brennen Black, Xian Chen, Zhen Pan

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeated X-ray bursts originating in galactic nuclei. Of the many proposed models, the favored model is the disk-collision model in which a stel…

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Captured are circularized: A relativistic treatment of extreme mass ratio inspirals crossing accretion disks

Yuhe Zeng, Zhen Pan

A small body orbiting around an accreting massive object and periodically crossing its accretion disk is a common configuration in astrophysics. In this work, we investigate the se…