591 citations · 2.1k across the 54 of their papers we have counts for
6 papers · 1 filter
Enhanced Blackhole mergers in AGN discs due to Precession induced resonances
Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, Gongjie Li, Doug Lin
Recent studies have shown that AGN discs can host sources of gravitational waves. Compact binaries can form and merge in AGN discs through their interactions with the gas and other…
Blackhole Mergers Through Evection Resonances
Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, Gongjie Li, Douglas N. C. Lin
Mechanisms have been proposed to enhance the merger rate of stellar mass black hole binaries, such as the Von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai mechanism (vZLK). However, high inclinations are re…
Secular Spin-orbit Resonances of Black Hole Binaries in AGN Disks
Gongjie Li, Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, Bence Kocsis +1
The spin-orbit misalignment of stellar-mass black hole (sBH) binaries provide important constraints on the formation channels of merging sBHs. Here, we study the role of secular sp…
Order in the chaos: eccentric black hole binary mergers in triples formed via strong binary-binary scatterings
Manuel Arca-Sedda, Gongjie Li, Bence Kocsis
Black hole (BH) triples represent one of the astrophysical pathways for BH mergers in the Universe detectable by LIGO and VIRGO. We study the formation of BH triples via binary-bin…
Deviation of Stellar Orbits from Test Particle Trajectories Around Sgr A* Due to Tides and Winds
Dimitrios Psaltis, Gongjie Li, Abraham Loeb
Monitoring the orbits of stars around Sgr A* offers the possibility of detecting the precession of their orbital planes due to frame dragging, of measuring the spin and quadrupole…
Gravitational Wave Heating of Stars and Accretion Disks
Gongjie Li, Bence Kocsis, Abraham Loeb
We investigate the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) through the viscous dissipation of the GW energ…