Formation of discs around super-massive black hole binaries
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2017-08-23 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
We model numerically the evolution of turbulent molecular clouds in near-radial infall onto , equal-mass super-massive black hole binaries, using a modified version of the SPH code GADGET-3. We investigate the different gas structures formed depending on the relative inclination between the binary and the cloud orbits. Our first results indicate that an aligned orbit produces mini-discs around each black hole, almost aligned with the binary; a perpendicular orbit produces misaligned mini-discs; and a counter-aligned orbit produces a circumbinary, counter-rotating ring.
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@article{arxiv.1501.04012,
title = {Formation of discs around super-massive black hole binaries},
author = {Felipe G. Goicovic and Jorge Cuadra and Alberto Sesana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04012},
year = {2017}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 312, 2014. Animations available at http://www.astro.puc.cl/~fgarrido/animations