2 papers
astro-ph2004
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
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…