Eccentric Mergers of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes from Evection Resonances in AGN Disks

Diego J. Muñoz, Nicholas C. Stone, Cristobal Petrovich +1

We apply the theory of nonlinear resonance capture to the problem of a black hole binary (BHB) orbiting a supermassive black hole (SMBH) while embedded in the accretion disk of an…