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Secular Dimming of KIC 8462852 Following its Consumption of a Planet
Brian D. Metzger, Ken J. Shen, Nicholas C. Stone
The Kepler-field star KIC 8462852, an otherwise apparently ordinary F3 main-sequence star, showed several highly unusual dimming events of variable depth and duration. Adding to th…
The Superluminous Transient ASASSN-15lh as a Tidal Disruption Event from a Kerr Black Hole
G. Leloudas, M. Fraser, N. C. Stone +47
When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn apart. For a star with the mass of the Sun () and a non-spinning black hole with a…
The chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity I: Identical point-particles
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Nicholas C. Stone, Aaron M. Geller +4
In this paper, we study the chaotic four-body problem in Newtonian gravity. Assuming point particles and total encounter energies 0, the problem has three possible outcomes.…
On the origins of enigmatic stellar populations in Local Group galactic nuclei
Nathan W. C. Leigh, Fabio Antonini, Nicholas C. Stone +2
We consider the origins of enigmatic stellar populations in four Local Group galactic nuclei, specifically the Milky Way, M31, M32 and M33. These are centrally concentrated blue st…
Formation of Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Runaway Tidal Encounters
Nicholas C. Stone, Andreas H. W. Kuepper, Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) both inhabit galactic nuclei, coexisting in a range of bulge masses, but excluding each other in the largest or sm…
The influence of circumnuclear environment on the radio emission from TDE jets
A. Generozov, P. Mimica, B. D. Metzger +3
Dozens of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been identified at optical, UV and X-ray wavelengths. A small fraction of these, most notably Swift J1644+57, produce radio sy…