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"Hard" massive black hole (MBH) binaries embedded in steep stellar cusps can shrink via three-body slingshot interactions. We show that this process will inevitably be accompanied by a burst of stellar tidal disruptions, at a rate that can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-15 X. Chen , P. Madau , A. Sesana , F. K. Liu

We consider the problem of tidal disruption of stars in the centre of a galaxy containing a supermassive binary black hole with unequal masses. We assume that over the separation distance between the black holes the gravitational potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. B. Ivanov , A. G. Polnarev , P. Saha

Stars approaching supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centers of galaxies can be torn apart by strong tidal forces. We study the physics of tidal disruption by a binary SMBH as a function of the binary mass ratio $q = M_2 / M_1$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Siva Darbha , Eric R. Coughlin , Daniel Kasen , Eliot Quataert

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are expected by the hierarchical galaxy formation model in $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. There is some evidence in the literature for SMBHBs in AGNs, but there are few observational constraints on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xian Chen , F. K. Liu , John Magorrian

A star on a nearly radial trajectory approaching a massive black hole (MBH) gets tidally disrupted if it comes sufficiently close to the MBH. Here we explore what happens to binary stars whose centers of mass approach the MBH on nearly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-21 Ilya Mandel , Yuri Levin

We investigate the pre-disruption gravitational dynamics and post-disruption hydrodynamics of the tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. We focus on binaries with relatively low mass primaries…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Eric R. Coughlin , Philip J. Armitage , Chris Nixon , Mitchell C. Begelman

We investigate interactions of stellar binaries in galactic nuclear clusters with a massive black hole (MBH). We consider binaries on highly eccentric orbits around the MBH that change due to random gravitational interactions with other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Bradnick , Ilya Mandel , Yuri Levin

Close tidal interactions of stars with a central massive black hole (MBH) or with other stars in the high density cusp around it can affect a significant fraction of the stellar population within the MBH radius of influence. We consider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tal Alexander

We find that the majority of systems hosting multiple tidal disruptions are likely to contain hard binary SMBH systems, and also show that the rates of these repeated events are high enough to be detected by LSST over its lifetime.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Christopher Wegg , J. Nate Bode

In the cores of dense stellar clusters, close gravitational encounters between binary and single stars can frequently occur. Using the Tsunami code, we computed the outcome of a large number of binary-single interactions involving two black…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Lucas Hellström , Abbas Askar , Alessandro A. Trani , Mirek Giersz , Ross P. Church , Johan Samsing

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 discuss the properties of stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers induced by tidal encounters with a massive BH at galactic centres or potentially in dense star clusters. The tidal disruption of stellar binaries by a massive BH is known to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-31 Joseph John Fernández , Shiho Kobayashi

Hills breakup of binary systems allows massive black holes (MBH) to produce hyper-velocity stars (HVSs) and tightly bound stars. The long timescale of orbital relaxation means that binaries must spend numerous orbits around the MBH before…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Howard Hao-Tse Huang , Wenbin Lu

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) take place when a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and becomes ruptured. One of the leading proposed physical mechanisms often invoked in the literature involves weak two-body…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-16 Denyz Melchor , Brenna Mockler , Smadar Naoz , Sanaea Rose , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

When binaries are injected into low-angular-momentum orbits around a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), various outcomes can occur, including binary tidal breakup, double stellar disruptions and stellar collision. We use hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-17 Fangyuan Yu , Dong Lai

Sun-like stars are thought to be regularly disrupted by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within galactic nuclei. Yet, as stars evolve off the main sequence their vulnerability to tidal disruption increases drastically as they develop a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Morgan MacLeod , James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

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

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

This paper introduces a series of papers presenting a quantitative theory for the tidal disruption of main sequence stars by supermassive black holes. Using fully general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations and MESA-model initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

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
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