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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 fate of close encounters between binary stars and binary supermassive black holes
Yi-Han Wang, Nathan Leigh, Ye-Fei Yuan +1
The evolution of main sequence binaries that reside in the Galactic Centre can be heavily influenced by the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Due to these perturbative effect…
Small-N collisional dynamics III: The battle for the realm of not-so-small-N
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Aaron M. Geller, Michael M. Shara +3
In this paper, the third in the series, we continue our study of combinatorics in chaotic Newtonian dynamics. We study the chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity assuming f…
Mass Evaporation Rate of Globular Clusters in a Strong Tidal Field
Juan P. Madrid, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Jarrod R. Hurley +1
The mass evaporation rate of globular clusters evolving in a strong Galactic tidal field is derived through the analysis of large, multi-mass -body simulations. For comparison,…
MOCCA-SURVEY database I. Accreting white dwarf binary systems in globular clusters -- III. Cataclysmic variables -- Implications of model assumptions
Diogo Belloni, Mónica Zorotovic, Matthias R. Schreiber +3
In this third of a series of papers related to cataclysmic variables (CVs) and related objects, we analyse the population of CVs in a set of 12 globular cluster models evolved with…