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astro-ph.HE2016★ 49 cited
Simulations of Magnetic Fields in Tidally-Disrupted Stars
James Guillochon, Michael McCourt
We perform the first magnetohydrodynamical simulations of tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes. We consider stars with both tangled and ordered magnetic fields, f…
astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited
Using gas clouds to probe the accretion flow around SgrA*: G2's delayed pericenter passage
Ann-Marie Madigan, Michael McCourt, Ryan O'Leary
We study the dynamical evolution of the putative gas clouds G1 and G2 recently discovered in the Galactic center. Following earlier studies suggesting that these two clouds are par…