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In-plane Tidal Disruption of Stars in Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei
Taeho Ryu, Barry McKernan, Saavik Ford +4
Stars embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks or captured by them may scatter onto the supermassive black hole (SMBH), leading to a tidal disruption event (TDE). Using the…
Constraining the LIGO/Virgo AGN channel with black hole spins
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford
Merging black holes (BH) are expected to produce remnants with large dimensionless spin parameters (). However, gravitational wave (GW) observations with LIG…
Effective two-body scatterings around a massive object
Yihan Wang, Saavik Ford, Rosalba Perna +3
Two-body scatterings under the potential of a massive object are very common in astrophysics. If the massive body is far enough away that the two small bodies are in their own grav…
GW190521 as a black-hole merger coincident with the ZTF19abanrhr flare
Juan Calderón Bustillo, Samson H. W. Leong, Koustav Chandra +2
We present an analysis that reconciles the gravitational-wave signal GW190521 observed by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors with the electromagnetic flare ZTF19abanrhr…
On the resonant detonation of sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs during binary inspiral
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford
White dwarfs (WDs) are believed to detonate via explosive Carbon-fusion in a Type Ia Supernova when their temperature and/or density reach the point where Carbon is ignited in a ru…
Stars as resonant absorbers of gravitational waves
B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, B. Kocsis +1
Quadrupole oscillation modes in stars can resonate with incident gravitational waves (GWs), and grow non-linear at the expense of GW energy. Stars near massive black hole binaries…