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The Influence of Black Hole Binarity on Tidal Disruption Events
Eric R. Coughlin, Philip J. Armitage, Giuseppe Lodato +1
Mergers are fundamental to the standard paradigm of galaxy evolution, and provide a natural formation mechanism for supermassive black hole binaries. The formation process of such…
On the Diversity of Fallback Rates from Tidal Disruption Events with Accurate Stellar Structure
Elen C. A. Golightly, C. J. Nixon, Eric R. Coughlin
The tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be used to probe the SMBH mass function, the properties of individual stars, and stellar dynamics in galactic…
Partial Stellar Disruption by a Supermassive Black Hole: Is the Lightcurve Really Proportional to ?
Eric R. Coughlin, C. J. Nixon
The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole, and the subsequent accretion of the disrupted debris by that black hole, offers a direct means to study the inner regio…
Energy-conserving, Relativistic Corrections to Strong Shock Propagation
Eric R. Coughlin
Astrophysical explosions are accompanied by the propagation of a shock wave through an ambient medium. Depending on the mass and energy involved in the explosion, the shock velocit…
Ultra-deep tidal disruption events: prompt self-intersections and observables
Siva Darbha, Eric R. Coughlin, Daniel Kasen +1
A star approaching a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can be torn apart in a tidal disruption event (TDE). We examine ultra-deep TDEs, a new regime in which the disrupted debris appr…
Weak Shock Propagation with Accretion. III. A Numerical Study On Shock Propagation & Stability
Stephen Ro, Eric R. Coughlin, Eliot Quataert
Core-collapse supernovae span a wide range of energies, from much less than to much greater than the binding energy of the progenitor star. As a result, the shock wave generated fr…