2 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
Unifying spatial correlation with hierarchical population inference to constrain the AGN channel for binary black hole mergers
Lucas Pouw, Lorenzo Speri, Niccolò Veronesi +1
The origin of the stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) observed in gravitational wave (GW) events by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) detectors remains uncertain. One promising formati…
astro-ph.GA2026
Kozai-driven mass loss of the circumbinary disk in D9 in orbit around the supermassive black hole Sgr A*
Yannick Badoux, Lucas Pouw, Tim van der Vuurst +1
The supermassive black hole (Sgr A*) in the Galactic center is surrounded by the S-star cluster consisting of young stars on eccentric orbits. Recently, the S-star binary, called D…