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Binary disruptions driven by massive disks around massive black holes
Mark Dodici
The paper investigates how the non‑spherical gravitational potential of massive accretion disks around massive black holes can torque binary stars, driving them to extreme eccentri…
astro-ph.GA2025
Dynamical evolution of stellar binaries in galactic centers
Mark Dodici, Scott Tremaine, Yanqin Wu
Stellar binaries in galactic centers are relevant to several observable phenomena, including hypervelocity stars, X-ray binaries, and mergers of stars and compact objects; however,…