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20172021
most citedOn the different flavours of Lense-Thirring precession around accreting stellar mass black holes

48 citations · 274 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.HE202139 cited

The competing effect of gas and stars in massive black hole binaries evolution

Elisa Bortolas, Alessia Franchini, Matteo Bonetti +1

Massive black hole binaries are predicted to form during the hierarchical assembly of cosmic structures and will represent the loudest sources of low-frequency gravitational waves…

astro-ph.HE202129 cited

Circumbinary disc self-gravity governing supermassive black hole binary mergers

Alessia Franchini, Alberto Sesana, Massimo Dotti

Understanding the interaction of massive black hole binaries with their gaseous environment is crucial since at sub-parsec scales the binary is too wide for gravitational wave emis…

astro-ph.EP2020

Formation of the polar debris disc around 99 Herculis

Jeremy L. Smallwood, Alessia Franchini, Cheng Chen +4

We investigate the formation mechanism for the observed nearly polar aligned (perpendicular to the binary orbital plane) debris ring around the eccentric orbit binary 99 Herculis.…

astro-ph.EP201914 cited

Multi-planet disc interactions in binary systems

Alessia Franchini, Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow

We investigate the evolution of a multi--planet--disc system orbiting one component of a binary star system. The planet--disc system is initially coplanar but misaligned to the bin…

astro-ph.EP2019

Orbital dynamics of circumbinary planets

Cheng Chen, Alessia Franchini, Stephen H. Lubow +1

We investigate the dynamics of a nonzero mass, circular orbit planet around an eccentric orbit binary for various values of the binary eccentricity, binary mass fraction, planet ma…

astro-ph.HE2019

The frequency of Kozai-Lidov disc oscillation driven giant outbursts in Be/X-ray binaries

Rebecca G. Martin, Alessia Franchini

Giant outbursts of Be/X-ray binaries may occur when a Be-star disc undergoes strong eccentricity growth due to the Kozai-Lidov (KL) mechanism. The KL effect acts on a disc that is…