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We study the warping and tearing of a geometrically thin, non-self-gravitating disk surrounding binary supermassive black holes on an eccentric orbit. The circumbinary disk is significantly misaligned with the binary orbital plane, and is…

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In this paper, we study how gaseous dynamical friction (DF) affects the motion of fly-by stellar-mass black holes (sBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) discs. We perform 3-body integrations of the interaction of two co-planar…

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Observations of systems hosting close in ($<1$ AU) giant planets and brown dwarfs ($M\gtrsim7$ M$_{\rm Jup}$) find an excess of binary star companions, indicating that stellar multiplicity may play an important role in their formation.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 James Cadman , Cassandra Hall , Clémence Fontanive , Ken Rice

Post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) binaries are surrounded by massive disks of gas and dust that are similar to protoplanetary disks around young stars. We assembled a catalog of all known Galactic post-AGB binaries with disks. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Jacques Kluska , Hans Van Winckel , Quentin Coppée , Glenn-Michael Oomen , Devika Kamath , Valentin Bujarrabal , Michiel Min

Hierarchical structure formation inevitably leads to the formation of supermassive binary black holes (BBHs) with a sub-parsec separation in galactic nuclei. However, to date there has been no unambiguous detection of such systems. In an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kimitake Hayasaki , Shin Mineshige , Luis C. Ho

Stars often reside in binary configurations. The nuclear star cluster surrounding the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the Galactic Center (GC) is expected to include a binary population. In this dense environment, a binary frequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Sanaea C. Rose , Smadar Naoz , Abhimat K. Gautam , Andrea M. Ghez , Tuan Do , Devin Chu , Eric Becklin

We demonstrate that gas disks around binary systems might deliver gas to the binary components only when the circumbinary disk is relatively warm. We present new grid-based hydrodynamics simulations, performed with the binary on the grid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Christopher Tiede , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

We present radiation hydrodynamic simulations in which binary planets form by close encounters in a system of several super-Earth embryos. The embryos are embedded in a protoplanetary disk consisting of gas and pebbles and evolve in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Ondřej Chrenko , Miroslav Brož , David Nesvorný

Gap formation in a gas disk triggered by disk-planet tidal interaction is considered. Density waves launched by the planet are assumed to be damped as a result of their nonlinear evolution leading to shock formation and its subsequent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roman Rafikov

The question whether the interaction of a circumbinary disc with the central binary system leads to shrinking or expansion of the binary orbit has attracted considerable interest as it impacts the evolution of binary black holes and stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Wilhelm Kley , Hugo Audiffren , Christoph M. Schäfer

We simulate an equal-mass merger of two Milky Way-size galaxy discs with moderate gas fractions at parsec-scale resolution including a new model for radiative cooling and heating in a multi-phase medium, as well as star formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Roškar , L. Mayer , D. Fiacconi , S. Kazantzidis , T. R. Quinn , J. Wadsley

Numerical studies of gas accretion onto supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) have generally been limited to conditions where the circumbinary disk (CBD) is 10-100 times thicker than expected for disks in active galactic nuclei (AGN).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-09 Christopher Tiede , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen , Zoltan Haiman

Gaseous circumbinary disks (CBDs) that are highly inclined to the binary orbit are commonly observed in nature. These disks harbor particles that can reach large mutual inclinations as a result of nodal precession once the gas disk has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Anna C. Childs , Rebecca G. Martin

We perform a large parameter survey of 112 collisionless N-body simulations of binary mergers of disk-galaxies with mass ratios of 1:1, 2:1, 3:1, and 4:1 using the special purpose hardware GRAPE. The basic properties of the remnants…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thorsten Naab , Andreas Burkert

The recent discoveries of circumbinary planets by $\it Kepler$ raise questions for contemporary planet formation models. Understanding how these planets form requires characterizing their formation environment, the circumbinary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 David P. Fleming , Thomas R. Quinn

Binary black holes (BBHs) forming in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a promising channel for gravitational-wave production. BBHs are often assumed to form at migration traps, i.e. radial locations where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Maria Paola Vaccaro , Yannick Seif , Michela Mapelli

Motivated by the increasing number of detections of merging black holes by LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA, black hole (BH) binary mergers in the discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is investigated as a possible merger channel. In this pathway, BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Connar Rowan , Tjarda Boekholt , Bence Kocsis , Zoltán Haiman

Stellar-mass binary black hole\,(BBH) mergers within the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei may contribute to gravitational wave\,(GW) events detected by grounded-based GW detectors. In particular, the interaction between a BBH and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-17 Mengye Wang , Yiqiu Ma , Hui Li , Qingwen Wu , Ya-Ping Li , Xiangli Lei , Jiancheng Wu

We study influence of a galactic central supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary on gas dynamics and star formation activity in a nuclear gas disk by making three-dimensional Tree+SPH simulations. Due to orbital motions of SMBHs, there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hidenori Matsui , Asao Habe , Takayuki R. Saitoh

We present a study of the gas-driven orbital evolution of unequal mass black hole binaries with circumbinary gas disks (CBDs), varying Mach number and viscosity (nu). Using two-dimensional grid-based hydrodynamics simulations spanning a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Madeline Clyburn , Jonathan Zrake