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Kozai cycles, tidal friction and the dynamical evolution of binary minor planets
Hagai B. Perets, Smadar Naoz
In recent years many binary minor planets (BMPs) have been discovered in the Solar system. Many models have been suggested for their formation, but these encounter difficulties exp…
The Galactic potential and the asymmetric distribution of hypervelocity stars
Hagai B. Perets, Xufen Wu, HongSheng Zhao +3
In recent years several hypervelocity stars (HVSs) have been observed in the halo of our Galaxy. Such HVSs have possibly been ejected from the Galactic center and then propagated i…
Dynamical evolution of the young stars in the Galactic center
Hagai. B. Perets, Alessia Gualandris, David Merritt +1
Recent observations of the Galactic center revealed a nuclear disk of young OB stars near the massive black hole (MBH), in addition to many similar outlying stars with higher eccen…
Milky Way potentials in CDM and MOND. Is the Large Magellanic Cloud on a bound orbit?
Xufen Wu, Benoit Famaey, Gianfranco Gentile +2
We compute the Milky Way potential in different cold dark matter (CDM) based models, and compare these with the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) framework. We calculate the axis…
Runaway and hypervelocity stars in the Galactic halo: Binary rejuvenation and triple disruption
Hagai B. Perets
Young stars observed in the distant Galactic halo are usually thought to have formed elsewhere, either in the Galactic disk or perhaps the Galactic center, and subsequently ejected…