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The radiation hydrodynamics of relativistic shear flows
Eric R. Coughlin, Mitchell C. Begelman
We present a method for analyzing the interaction between radiation and matter in regions of intense, relativistic shear that can arise in many astrophysical situations. We show th…
astro-ph.HE2016
On the structure of tidally-disrupted stellar debris streams
Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon, Mitchell C. Begelman +1
A tidal disruption event (TDE) -- when a star is destroyed by the immense gravitational field of a supermassive black hole -- transforms a star into a stream of tidally-shredded de…