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Prompt gravitational-wave mergers aided by gas in Active Galactic Nuclei: The hydrodynamics of binary-single black hole scatterings
Connar Rowan, Henry Whitehead, Gaia Fabj +4
Black hole binary systems embedded in AGN discs have been proposed as a source of the observed gravitational waves (GWs) from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. Studies have indicated binary-single…
Mapping the Outcomes of Stellar Evolution in the Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei
Gaia Fabj, Alexander J. Dittmann, Matteo Cantiello +2
The disks of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are expected to be populated by numerous stars, either formed in the outer regions of the disk via gravitational instability, or captured…
Eccentric Mergers in AGN Discs: Influence of the Supermassive Black-Hole on Three-body Interactions
Gaia Fabj, Johan Samsing
There are indications that stellar-origin black holes (BHs) are efficiently paired up in binary black holes (BBHs) in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) disc environments, which can unde…
Black Hole Mergers from Hierarchical Triples in Dense Star Clusters
Miguel A. S. Martinez, Giacomo Fragione, Kyle Kremer +8
Hierarchical triples are expected to be produced by the frequent binary-mediated interactions in the cores of globular clusters. In some of these triples, the tertiary companion ca…
On the rate of black hole binary mergers in galactic nuclei due to dynamical hardening
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Aaron M. Geller, B. McKernan +9
We assess the contribution of dynamical hardening by direct three-body scattering interactions to the rate of stellar-mass black hole binary (BHB) mergers in galactic nuclei. We de…
A Gravitational Double Scattering Mechanism for Generating High Velocity Objects
Johan Samsing
We present a dynamical model describing how halo particles can receive a significant energy kick from the merger between their own host halo and a target halo. This is highly relev…