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Mass loss and dynamical friction on the Fornax dSph galaxy in the Milky Way potential
Pierfrancesco Di Cintio, Giuliano Iorio, Carlo Nipoti +1
We study the interplay between mass-loss and dynamical friction (DF) on the orbital decay of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the potential of the Milky Way (MW). Using a simp…
Turbulent drag on stellar mass black holes embedded in disks of active galactic nuclei
Alessandro Alberto Trani, Pierfrancesco Di Cintio
We investigate how AGN disk turbulence affects the orbital dynamics of a stellar-mass black hole (BH) initially located at a migration trap, focusing on the long-term behavior of e…
A disturbance in the force. How force fluctuations hinder dynamical friction and induce core stalling
Pierfrancesco Di Cintio, Bruno Marcos
Dynamical friction is an important phenomena in stellar dynamics resulting in the slowing down of a test particle upon many two-body scatters with background particles. Chandrasekh…
The search for the lost attractor
Mario Pasquato, Syphax Haddad, Pierfrancesco Di Cintio +8
N-body systems characterized by inverse square attractive forces may display a self similar collapse known as the gravo-thermal catastrophe. In star clusters, collapse is halted by…
Taking apart the dynamical clock. Fat-tailed dynamical kicks shape the blue-straggler star bimodality
Mario Pasquato, Pierfrancesco Di Cintio
In globular clusters, blue straggler stars are heavier than the average star, so dynamical friction strongly affects them. The radial distribution of BSS, normalized to a reference…
Equilibrium time-correlation functions of the long-range interacting Fermi-Pasta-Ulam model
Pierfrancesco Di Cintio, Stefano Iubini, Stefano Lepri +1
We present a numerical study of dynamical correlations (structure factors) of the long-range generalization of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam oscillator chain, where the strength of the inte…