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Star Formation in Accretion Disks and SMBH Growth
Alexander J. Dittmann, M. Coleman Miller
Accretion disks around active galactic nuclei are potentially unstable to star formation at large radii. We note that when the compact objects formed from some of these stars spira…
Energetic constraints on electromagnetic signals from double black hole mergers
Lixin Dai, Jonathan C. McKinney, M. Coleman Miller
The possible Fermi detection of an electromagnetic counterpart to the double black hole merger GW150914 has inspired many theoretical models, some of which propose that the holes s…
Identifying Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Accelerators with Future Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrino Detectors
Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera, M. Coleman Miller +2
The detection of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrino sources would contribute significantly to solving the decades-old mystery of the origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays. We inves…
The Role of the Kozai-Lidov Mechanism in Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Centers
John H. VanLandingham, M. Coleman Miller, Douglas P. Hamilton +1
In order to understand the rate of merger of stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) by gravitational wave (GW) emission it is important to determine the major pathways to merger.…
Astrophysical Constraints on Dense Matter in Neutron Stars
M. Coleman Miller
Ever since the discovery of neutron stars it has been realized that they serve as probes of a physical regime that cannot be accessed in laboratories: strongly degenerate matter at…
Alignment of supermassive black hole binary orbits and spins
M. Coleman Miller, Julian H. Krolik
Recent studies of accretion onto supermassive black hole binaries suggest that much, perhaps most, of the matter eventually accretes onto one hole or the other. If so, then for bin…