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Identifying Decaying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from their Variable Electromagnetic Emission
Zoltán Haiman, Bence Kocsis, Kristen Menou +2
Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with masses in the range 10^4-10^7 M_sun/(1+z), produced in galaxy mergers, are thought to complete their coalescence due to the emission…
Long period planets from dynamical relaxation
Caleb Scharf, Kristen Menou
Recent imaging campaigns indicate the likely existence of massive planets (~ 1-10 MJ) on ~1000 year orbits about a few percent of stars. Such objects are not easily explained in mo…
Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters: A Shallow Three-Dimensional Model
Kristen Menou, Emily Rauscher
Remote observing of exoplanetary atmospheres is now possible, offering us access to circulation regimes unlike any of the familiar Solar System cases. Atmospheric circulation model…
Gravitational Radiation Driven Supermassive Black Hole Binary Inspirals as Periodically Variable Electromagnetic Sources
Zoltán Haiman, Bence Kocsis, Kristen Menou
Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) produced in galaxy mergers are thought to complete their coalescence, below separations of r_GW=10^{-3} (M_BH/10^8 M_sun)^{3/4} pc, as the…
Microphysical dissipation, turbulence and magnetic fields in hyper-accreting discs
Elena M. Rossi, Philip J. Armitage, Kristen Menou
Hyper-accreting discs occur in compact-object mergers and collapsars, and may power gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We calculate the microscopic viscosity and resistivity of plasma in the…
On Signatures of Atmospheric Features in Thermal Phase Curves of Hot Jupiters
Emily Rauscher, Kristen Menou, James Y-K. Cho +2
Turbulence is ubiquitous in Solar System planetary atmospheres. In hot Jupiter atmospheres, the combination of moderately slow rotation and thick pressure scale height may result i…