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Binary black holes (BBHs) appear to be widespread and are able to merge through the emission of gravitational waves, as recently illustrated by LIGO. The spin of the BBHs is one of the parameters that LIGO can infer from the gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Martin Lopez , Aldo Batta , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Irvin Martinez , Johan Samsing

Binary supermassive black holes (SMBH) are expected to form naturally during galaxy mergers. After the dynamical friction phase, when the two SMBHs become gravitationally bound to each other, and a brief stage of initial rapid hardening,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

The disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole generates a sudden bright flare. Previous studies have focused on the disruption by single black holes, for which the fallback rate decays as~$\propto t^{-5/3}$. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Quentin Vigneron , Giuseppe Lodato , Alessio Guidarelli

We explore the rates of tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars by supermassive black holes (SBHs) in galactic nuclei formed in mergers followed by a formation and coalescence of a binary SBH. Such systems initially have a deficit of stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Kirill Lezhnin , Eugene Vasiliev

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the products of frequent galaxy mergers. The coalescence of the SMBHBs is a distinct source of gravitational wave (GW) radiation. The detections of the strong GW radiation and their possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Shuo Li , F. K. Liu , Peter Berczik , Xian Chen , Rainer Spurzem

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies occasionally disrupt stars or consume stellar-mass black holes (BHs) that wander too close, producing observable electromagnetic or gravitational wave signals. We examine how mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Barak Rom , Re'em Sari

Off-center stellar tidal disruption flares have been suggested to be a powerful probe of recoiling supermassive black holes (SMBHs) out of galactic centers due to anisotropic gravitational wave radiations. However, off-center tidal flares…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. K. Liu , Xian Chen

We study tidal disruption events of rotating stars by a supermassive black hole in a galactic nucleus by using a smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code. We compare mass infall rates of tidal-disruption debris of a non-rotating and of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-28 Kazuki Kagaya , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Ataru Tanikawa

The evolution of main sequence binaries resided in the galactic centre is influenced a lot by the central super massive black hole (SMBH). Due to this perturbation, the stars in a dense environment are likely to experience mergers or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Bin Liu , Yi-Han Wang , Ye-Fei Yuan

We analyze the dynamical evolution of binary stars that interact with a static background of single stars in the environment of a massive black hole (MBH). All stars are considered to be single mass, Newtonian point particles. We follow the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Clovis Hopman

We develop a formalism for studying the dynamics of massive black hole binaries embedded in gravitationally-bound stellar cusps, and study the binary orbital decay by three-body interactions, the impact of stellar slingshots on the density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alberto Sesana , Francesco Haardt , Piero Madau

A supermassive black hole can disrupt a star when its tidal field exceeds the star's self-gravity, and can directly capture stars that cross its event horizon. For black holes with mass M > 10^7 solar masses, tidal disruption of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-26 Michael Kesden

The Galactic Center has been under intense scrutiny in the recent years thanks to the unprecedented missions aiming at measuring the gas and star dynamics near the supermassive black hole (SMBH) and at finding gravitational wave (GW)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-13 Re'em Sari , Giacomo Fragione

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are productions of the hierarchical galaxy formation model. There are many close connections between central SMBH and its host galaxy because the former plays very important roles on the formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-26 Shuo Li , F. K. Liu , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem

In the centers of galaxies, stars that orbit supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) can undergo tidal disruptions due to the Lidov-Kozai mechanism. Nevertheless, most previous researches have predominantly focused on full tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Xiao-Jun Wu , Ye-Fei Yuan , Yan Luo , Wenbin Lin

We analyze the outcome of the interaction between a stellar binary and a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) by performing a large number of gravitational scattering experiments. Most of the encounters result in either the ejection of an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Eric R. Coughlin , Siva Darbha , Daniel Kasen , Eliot Quataert

The disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is calculated numerically with a modified version of Aarseth's NBODY6 code. The initial stellar distribution around the SMBH follows a S\'{e}rsic n=4 profile representing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Brockamp , H. Baumgardt , P. Kroupa

We compute the expected cosmic rates of tidal disruption events induced by individual massive black holes (MBHs) and by MBH binaries (MBHBs) - with a specific focus on the latter class - to explore the potential of TDEs to probe the cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Stephen Thorp , Eli Chadwick , Alberto Sesana

We present the first simulations of the tidal disruption of stars with realistic structures and compositions by massive black holes (BHs). We build stars in the stellar evolution code MESA and simulate their disruption in the 3D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-17 Jamie Law-Smith , James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Tidal Disruption of stars by super massive central black holes from dense star clusters is modeled by high-accuracy direct $N$-body simulation. The time evolution of the stellar tidal disruption rate, the effect of tidal disruption on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Shiyan Zhong , Peter Berczik , Rainer Spurzem