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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

We investigate the orbital dynamics of hierarchical three-body systems containing a double neutron star system orbiting around a massive black hole. These systems show complex dynamical behaviour because of relativistic coupling between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-02 Grant N. Remmen , Kinwah Wu

We study the dynamics of the 3-D three-body problem of a small body moving under the attractions of a star and a giant planet which orbits the star on a much wider and elliptic orbit. In particular, we focus on the influence of an eccentric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. -S. Libert , N. Delsate

We present a new approach to studying the evolution of massive black hole binaries in a stellar environment. By imposing conservation of total energy and angular momentum in scattering experiments, we find the dissipation forces that are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yohai Meiron , Ari Laor

We study the secular gravitational dynamics of quadruple systems consisting of a hierarchical triple system orbited by a fourth body. These systems can be decomposed into three binary systems with increasing semimajor axes, binaries A, B…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-10 Adrian S. Hamers , Hagai B. Perets , Fabio Antonini , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

In this paper the recent interaction model over post-Newtonian theory of gravity has been used to study the stellar dynamics. It implies space time fabric that built over the massive object gets perturbed or literally contracted in presence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Shubhen Biswas

Stars bound to a supermassive black hole interact gravitationally. Persistent torques acting between stellar orbits lead to the rapid resonant relaxation of the orbital orientation vectors ("vector" resonant relaxation) and slower…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Bence Kocsis , Scott Tremaine

We follow the sinking of two massive black holes in a spherical stellar system where the black holes become bound under the influence of dynamical friction. Once bound, the binary hardens by three-body encounters with surrounding stars. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marc Hemsendorf , Steinn Sigurdsson , Rainer Spurzem

A star with main sequence mass greater than $25\sim 30\msun$ may collapse to a black hole of about 10 $\msun$ at the final stage of the evolution. About an order of 1\% of stellar mass is likely to be in form of such black holes in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hyung Mok Lee

(abridged) We consider a secular orbital evolution of a supermassive binary black hole (SBBH) with unequal masses $M_p$ and $M_s < M_p$ in a central part of a non-spherical nuclear star cluster (NSC). When the mass of NSC inside the orbit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Pavel B. Ivanov , Alexander G. Polnarev

The herein presented analytical framework fully describes the motion of coplanar systems consisting of a stellar binary and a planet orbiting both stars on orbital as well as secular timescales. Perturbations of the Runge-Lenz vector are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Nikolaos Georgakarakos , Siegfried Eggl

This study focuses on the long-term evolution of two bodies in nearby initially coplanar orbits around a central dominant body perturbed by a fourth body on a distant Keplerian orbit. Our previous works that considered this setup enforced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-17 Myank Singhal , Ladislav Šubr , Jaroslav Haas

We investigate the secular dynamics of three-body circumbinary systems under the effect of tides. We use the octupolar non-restricted approximation for the orbital interactions, general relativity corrections, the quadrupolar approximation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-12 Alexandre C. M. Correia , Gwenaël Boué , Jacques Laskar

We investigate the rate of orbital orientation dilution of young stellar clusters in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Within the framework of vector resonant relaxation, we predict the time evolution of the two-point correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Juan Giral Martínez , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon

Dwarf galaxies and globular clusters may contain intermediate mass black holes ($10^{3}$ to $10^{5}$ solar masses) in their cores. Estimates of ~$10^{3}$ neutron stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy and similar numbers in small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Dinesh Singh , Kinwah Wu , Gordon E. Sarty

Triple body systems are prevalent in nature, from planetary to stellar to supermassive black hole scales. In a hierarchical triple system, oscillations of the inner orbit's eccentricity and inclination can be induced on secular timescales.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Grant C. Weldon , Smadar Naoz , Bradley M. S. Hansen

The Galactic Centre S-stars orbiting the central supermassive black hole reach velocities of a few percent of the speed of light. The GR-induced perturbations to the redshift enter the dynamics via two distinct channels. The post-Newtonian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-08-09 Raymond Angelil , Prasenjit Saha

The leading order effect of the spin of a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH) on the orbit of compact binary revolving around it appears at the 1.5 post Newtonian (PN) expansion through coupling with the inner and outer orbital angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Yun Fang , Qing-Guo Huang

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

[Abridged] In galactic nuclei with sufficiently short relaxation times, binary supermassive black holes can evolve beyond their stalling radii via continued interaction with stars. We study this "collisional" evolutionary regime using both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Merritt , Seppo Mikkola , Andras Szell