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On the relative importance of shocks and self-gravity in modifying tidal disruption event debris streams
Julia Fancher, Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon
In a tidal disruption event (TDE), a star is destroyed by the gravitational field of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) to produce a stream of debris, some of which accretes onto the…
Can a binary star host three giant circumbinary planets?
Cheng Chen, Rebecca G. Martin, C. J. Nixon
We investigate the orbital stability of a tilted circumbinary planetary system with three giant planets. The planets are spaced by a constant number () of mutual Hill radii in t…
On the conditions for warping and breaking protoplanetary discs
Alison K. Young, Struan Stevenson, C. J. Nixon +1
Recent observations demonstrate that misalignments and other out-of-plane structures are common in protoplanetary discs. Many of these have been linked to a central host binary wit…
Orbital stability of two circumbinary planets around misaligned eccentric binaries
Cheng Chen, Stephen H. Lubow, Rebecca G. Martin +1
With -body simulations we investigate the stability of tilted circumbinary planetary systems consisting of two nonzero mass planets. The planets are initially in circular orbits…
Tidal capture of stars by supermassive black holes: implications for periodic nuclear transients and quasi-periodic eruptions
M. Cufari, C. J. Nixon, Eric R. Coughlin
Stars that plunge into the center of a galaxy are tidally perturbed by a supermassive black hole (SMBH), with closer encounters resulting in larger perturbations. Exciting these ti…