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Tidal Disruption Events by a Massive Black Hole Binary
Angelo Ricarte, Priyamvada Natarajan, Lixin Dai +1
Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are a natural byproduct of galaxy mergers. Previous studies have shown that flares from stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) are modified by t…
Efficiency of Super-Eddington Magnetically-Arrested Accretion
Jonathan C. McKinney, Lixin Dai, Mark Avara
The radiative efficiency of super-Eddington accreting black holes (BHs) is explored for magnetically-arrested disks (MADs), where magnetic flux builds-up to saturation near the BH.…
Soft X-ray Temperature Tidal Disruption Events from Stars on Deep Plunging Orbits
Lixin Dai, Jonathan C. McKinney, M. Coleman Miller
One of the puzzles associated with tidal disruption event candidates (TDEs) is that there is a dichotomy between the color temperatures of ~K for TDEs discove…