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A Statistical Solution to the Chaotic, Non-Hierarchical Three-Body Problem
Nicholas C. Stone, Nathan W. C. Leigh
The three-body problem is arguably the oldest open question in astrophysics, and has resisted a general analytic solution for centuries. Various implementations of perturbation the…
Orphaned Exomoons: Tidal Detachment and Evaporation Following an Exoplanet-Star Collision
Miguel Martinez, Nicholas C. Stone, Brian D. Metzger
Gravitational perturbations on an exoplanet from a massive outer body, such as the Kozai-Lidov mechanism, can pump the exoplanet's eccentricity up to values that will destroy it vi…
Implications from Late-Time X-ray Detections of Optically Selected Tidal Disruption Events: State Changes, Unification, and Detection Rates
P. G. Jonker, N. C. Stone, A. Generozov +2
We present Chandra X-ray observations of four optically-selected tidal disruption events (TDEs) obtained 4-9 years after discovery. Three sources were detected with luminosities be…
AGN Disks Harden the Mass Distribution of Stellar-mass Binary Black Hole Mergers
Y. Yang, I. Bartos, Z. Haiman +4
The growing number of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers discovered by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are starting to constrain the binaries' origin and environment. However,…
Thawing the frozen-in approximation: implications for self-gravity in deeply plunging tidal disruption events
Elad Steinberg, Eric R. Coughlin, Nicholas C. Stone +1
The tidal destruction of a star by a massive black hole, known as a tidal disruption event (TDE), is commonly modeled using the "frozen-in" approximation. Under this approximation,…
Multimessenger science opportunities with mHz gravitational waves
John Baker, Zoltán Haiman, Elena Maria Rossi +32
LISA will open the mHz band of gravitational waves (GWs) to the astronomy community. The strong gravity which powers the variety of GW sources in this band is also crucial in a num…