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Unbound Debris Streams and Remnants Resulting From the Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes
James Guillochon, Michael McCourt, Xian Chen +2
The kinetic energy of a star in orbit about a supermassive black hole is a significant fraction of its rest mass energy when its periapse is comparable to its tidal radius. Upon it…
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Going with the flow: using gas clouds to probe the accretion flow feeding Sgr A*
Michael McCourt, Ann-Marie Madigan
The massive black hole in our galactic center, Sgr A*, accretes only a small fraction of the gas available at its Bondi radius. The physical processes determining this accretion ra…