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Density Wakes due to Dynamical Friction in Cored Potentials
Karamveer Kaur, Nicholas C. Stone
Dynamical friction is often modeled with reasonable accuracy by the widely used Chandrasekhar formula. However, in some circumstances, Chandrasekhar's local and uniform approximati…
Interacting Stellar EMRIs as Sources of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions in Galactic Nuclei
Brian D. Metzger, Nicholas C. Stone, Shmuel Gilbaum
A star that approaches a supermassive black hole (SMBH) on a circular extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) can undergo Roche lobe overflow (RLOF), resulting in a phase of long-lived…
Feedback-Dominated Accretion Flows
Shmuel Gilbaum, Nicholas C. Stone
We present new two-fluid models of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that aim to address the long-standing problem of Toomre instability in AGN outskirts. In the spi…
Mass, Spin, and Ultralight Boson Constraints from the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in the Tidal Disruption Event 3XMM J215022.4-055108
Sixiang Wen, Peter G. Jonker, Nicholas C. Stone +1
We simultaneously and successfully fit the multi-epoch X-ray spectra of the tidal disruption event (TDE) 3XMM J215022.4-055108 using a modified version of our relativistic slim dis…
The observed mass distribution of Galactic black hole LMXBs is biased against massive black holes
Peter G. Jonker, Karamveer Kaur, Nicholas Stone +1
The discovery of gravitational wave radiation from merging black holes (BHs) also uncovered BHs with masses in the range of ~20-160 Msun. In contrast, the most massive Galactic ste…