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Dynamics of stellar orbits in dense stellar systems and nuclear star clusters (NSC) with an embedded supermassive black hole (SMBH) is governed a complex interplay of different forces. In particular, star--star gravitational collisions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 Vladimir Karas

We study the dynamics of a solar-type star orbiting around a black hole binary (BHB) in a nearly coplanar system. We present a novel effect that can prompt a growth and significant oscillations of the eccentricity of the stellar orbit when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 Bin Liu , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Alejandro Vigna-Gómez , Johan Samsing

A detailed model of the tidal disruption events (TDEs) has been constructed using stellar dynamical and gas dynamical inputs that include black hole (BH) mass $M_{\bullet}$, specific orbital energy $E$ and angular momentum $J$, star mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 T. Mageshwaran , A. Mangalam

In low-luminosity active galactic nuclei like M87$^\ast$ and Sgr A$^\ast$, the accretion flow in the vicinity of the black hole is in the collisionless regime, meaning that the collisional mean free path of charged particles is much larger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Martin Luepker , Yajie Yuan , Alexander Y. Chen

In the present paper, we consider a rotating black hole moving in a homogeneous massless scalar field. We assume that the field is weak and neglect its backreaction, so that the metric at far distance from the black hole is practically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-05 Valeri Frolov

It is shown that Milne models (a subclass of FLRW spacetimes with negative spatial curvature) are nonlinearly stable in the set of solutions to the Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell system, describing universes with ensembles of collisionless…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-16 Hamed Barzegar , David Fajman

We study the dynamics of a pair of extremal (half-BPS) black holes in $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity, as a potentially solvable model of gravitational dynamics. As a diagnosis of hidden symmetries, we ask whether the perihelion of the orbits…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Simon Caron-Huot , Zahra Zahraee

The dynamical processes involving stellar-remnant black holes (BH) in stellar clusters has always drawn attention due to the BHs' potential in a number of astrophysical phenomena, especially the dynamical formation of binary black holes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Sambaran Banerjee

We present a new analytical solution to the steady-state distribution of stars close to a central supermassive black hole of mass $M_{\bullet}$ in the center of a galaxy. Assuming a continuous mass function of the form $dN/dm \propto…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Itai Linial , Re'em Sari

The motion of a point like object of mass $M$ passing through the background potential of massive collisionless particles ($m << M$) suffers a steady deceleration named dynamical friction. In his classical work, Chandrasekhar assumed a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 J. M. Silva , J. A. S. Lima , R. E. de Souza , A. Del Popolo , Morgan Le Delliou , Xi-Guo Lee

We discuss the process of adiabatic growth of central black holes in the presence of a stationary, pre-existing distribution of collisionless stars. Within the limitations of the assumptions, the resulting models make robust physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steinn Sigurdsson

We analyze the mass distribution of stellar black holes derived from the light and radial velocity curves of optical stars in close binary systems using dynamical methods. The systematic errors inherent in this approach are discussed. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 K. A. Postnov , A. M. Cherepashchuk

We explore here an scenario for massive black hole formation driven by stellar collisions in galactic nuclei, proposing a new formation regime of global instability in nuclear stellar clusters triggered by runaway stellar collisions. Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Andres Escala

We present new dynamical models of weakly self-gravitating, finite dispersion eccentric stellar disks around central black holes for the double nucleus of M31. The disk is fixed in a frame rotating at constant precession speed, and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert M. Salow , Thomas S. Statler

We present a method for constructing dynamical models of stellar systems described by distribution functions and constrained by discrete-kinematic data. We implement various improvements compared to earlier applications of this approach,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Eugene Vasiliev , Anja Feldmeier-Krause , Mattia C. Sormani

We present the stellar dynamical mass of the central black hole in the nearby Seyfert galaxy MCG$-$06-30-15 using the Schwarzschild orbit-superposition method implemented in the open-source code FORSTAND. We obtained spatially resolved…

We study the kinematics of stellar disc populations within the solar neighbourhood in order to find the imprints of the Galactic bar. We carry out the analysis by developing a numerical resolution of the 2D2V Collisionless Boltzmann…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Olivier Bienaymé

We study the stability of stellar dynamical equilibrium models for M32. Kinematic observations show that M32 has a central black hole of 3x10^6 solar masses, and a phase-space distribution function that is close to the `two-integral' form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. P. van der Marel , S. Sigurdsson , L. Hernquist

Analytical treatment of black hole accretion generally presumes the stability of the stationary configuration. Various authors in the past several decades demonstrated the validity of such an assumption for inviscid hydrodynamic flow.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-17 Sankhasubhra Nag , Deepika B Ananda , Ishita Maity , Tapas K. Das

To be presented is a study of the secular evolution of a spherical stellar system with a central star-accreting black hole (BH) using the anisotropic gaseous model. This method solves numerically moment equations of the full Fokker-Planck…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Marc Freitag , Rainer Spurzem