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astro-ph2004★ 55 cited
Loss Cone Refilling Rates in Galactic Nuclei
David Merritt, Jianxiang Wang
A gap in phase space is opened up by a binary supermassive black hole as it ejects stars in a galactic nucleus. This gap must be refilled before the single black hole that subseque…
astro-ph2003★ 377 cited
Revised Rates of Stellar Disruption in Galactic Nuclei
Jianxiang Wang, David Merritt
We compute rates of tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, using downwardly-revised black hole masses from the M-sigma relation. In galaxies with…