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astro-ph2007★ 93 cited
Interaction of massive black hole binaries with their stellar environment: III. Scattering of bound stars
Alberto Sesana, Francesco Haardt, Piero Madau
We develop a formalism for studying the dynamics of massive black hole binaries embedded in gravitationally-bound stellar cusps, and study the binary orbital decay by three-body in…
astro-ph2007★ 69 cited
Hypervelocity stars and the environment of Sgr A*
A. Sesana, F. Haardt, P. Madau
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are a natural consequence of the presence of a massive nuclear black hole (Sgr A*) in the Galactic Center. Here we use the Brown et al. sample of unbound…