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On the rate of black hole binary mergers in galactic nuclei due to dynamical hardening
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Aaron M. Geller, B. McKernan +9
We assess the contribution of dynamical hardening by direct three-body scattering interactions to the rate of stellar-mass black hole binary (BHB) mergers in galactic nuclei. We de…
The Evolution of Kicked Stellar-Mass Black Holes in Star Cluster Environments
Jeremy J. Webb, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Abhishek Singh +3
We consider how dynamical friction acts on black holes that receive a velocity kick while located at the center of a gravitational potential, analogous to a star cluster, due to ei…
The Contribution Of Outer HI Disks To The Merging Binary Black Hole Population
Sukanya Chakrabarti, Philip Chang, Richard O'Shaughnessy +5
We investigate the contribution of outer HI disks to the observable population of merging black hole binaries. Like dwarf galaxies, the outer HI disks of spirals have low star form…
The birth of a supermassive black hole binary
Hugo Pfister, Alessandro Lupi, Pedro R. Capelo +3
We study the dynamical evolution of supermassive black holes, in the late stage of galaxy mergers, from kpc to pc scales. In particular, we capture the formation of the binary, a n…
On stellar-mass black hole mergers in AGN disks detectable with LIGO
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, J. Bellovary +9
Black hole mergers detectable with LIGO can occur in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks. Here we parameterize the merger rates, the mass spectrum and the spin spectrum of black ho…