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astro-ph.EP2015★ 57 cited
A new inclination instability reshapes Keplerian disks into cones: application to the outer Solar System
Ann-Marie Madigan, Michael McCourt
Disks of bodies orbiting a much more massive central object are extremely common in astrophysics. When the orbits comprising such disks are eccentric, we show they are susceptible…
astro-ph.HE2015
Going with the flow: using gas clouds to probe the accretion flow feeding Sgr A*
Michael McCourt, Ann-Marie Madigan
The massive black hole in our galactic center, Sgr A*, accretes only a small fraction of the gas available at its Bondi radius. The physical processes determining this accretion ra…