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Stellar collisions in dense galactic nuclei might play an important role in fueling supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and shaping their environments. The gas released during these collisions can contribute to SMBH accretion, influencing…

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We compare the results of constructing binary black hole initial data with three different decompositions of the constraint equations of general relativity. For each decomposition we compute the initial data using a superposition of two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Harald P. Pfeiffer , Gregory B. Cook , Saul A. Teukolsky

In this paper we study gravitationally bound compact objects sourced by a string theory inspired Born-Infeld scalar field. Unlike many of their canonical scalar field counterparts, these ``boson stars'' do not have to extend out to infinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Andrew DeBenedictis , Sasa Ilijic

We develop a close-limit approximation to the head-on collision of two neutron stars similar to that used to treat the merger of black hole binaries . This approximation can serve as a useful benchmark test for future fully nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 G. D. Allen , N. Andersson , K. D. Kokkotas , P. Laguna , J. A. Pullin , J. Ruoff

This work investigates variations in the star formation rate during galaxy collisions when the initial conditions of velocity and gas mass are altered. For this purpose, hydrodynamic simulations were performed using the GADGET-4 code, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-07 Gustavo Neves Pereira , Paulo Laerte Natti

The neutron star equation of state is now being constrained from a diverse set of multi-messenger data, including gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers, X-ray observations of the neutron star radius, and many types of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Carolyn Raithel , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

Scalar, spherically symmetric, radially excited boson stars were previously shown to be stabilized, against spherical dynamics, by sufficiently strong self-interactions. Here, we further test their stability now in a full 3+1D evolution. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-08 Marco Brito , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Miguel Zilhão

The construction of constraint-satisfying initial data is an essential element for the numerical exploration of the dynamics of compact-object binaries. While several codes have been developed over the years to compute generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-28 L. Jens Papenfort , Samuel D. Tootle , Philippe Grandclément , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

We present a new approach to constrain galaxy physical parameters from the combined interpretation of stellar and nebular emission in wide ranges of observations. This approach relies on the Bayesian analysis of any type of galaxy spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Camilla Pacifici , Stephane Charlot , Jeremy Blaizot , Jarle Brinchmann

An efficient Bayesian technique for estimation problems in fundamental stellar astronomy is tested on simulated data for a binary observed both astrometrically and spectroscopically. Posterior distributions are computed for the components'…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 L. B. Lucy

The vast majority of binary systems are disrupted at the moment of the first supernova, resulting in an unbound compact object and companion star. These ejected companion stars contribute to the observed population of runaway stars.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-03 Tom Wagg , David D. Hendriks , Mathieu Renzo , Katelyn Breivik

A new method is proposed to improve the numeri- cal simulation of time dependent problems when the initial and boundary data are not compatible. Unlike earlier methods limited to space dimension one, this method can be used for any space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-23 Qingshan Chen , Zhen Qin , Roger Temam

In dense stellar clusters, binary-single and binary-binary encounters can ultimately lead to collisions involving two or more stars. A comprehensive survey of multi-star collisions would need to explore an enormous amount of parameter…

The majority of stars more massive than the Sun is found in binary or multiple star systems and many of them will interact during their evolution. Specific interactions, where progenitors and post-mass transfer (MT) systems are clearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Stephan Geier , Thomas Kupfer , Pierre Maxted , Veronika Schaffenroth

A boson sampling device is a specialised quantum computer that solves a problem which is strongly believed to be computationally hard for classical computers. Recently a number of small-scale implementations have been reported, all based on…

The precise tuning required to observe critical phenomena in gravitational collapse poses a challenge for most numerical codes. First, threshold estimation searches may be obstructed by the appearance of coordinate singularities, indicating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-24 Daniela Cors , Sarah Renkhoff , Hannes R. Rüter , David Hilditch , Bernd Brügmann

While convection has been known to play a key role in stars for many decades, its implementation in one-dimensional stellar evolution codes still represents a major uncertainty today. The purpose of this work is to investigate the impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Emily E. Whitehead , Raphael Hirschi , Vishnu Varma , Bernhard Mueller , Federico Rizzuti , Cyril Georgy , W. D. Arnett

This work presents a theoretical model of boson sampling with optical feedback, in which a subset of the interferometer's output modes is looped back into the input modes. If the bosons are injected periodically into the input modes of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Yu. A. Biriukov , I. V. Dyakonov

When the primary star in a close binary system evolves into a giant and engulfs its companion, its core and the companion temporarily orbit each other inside a common envelope. Drag forces transfer orbital energy and angular momentum to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-15 Friedrich K. Roepke , Orsola De Marco

We experimentally demonstrate a testing strategy for boson samplers that is based on efficiently computable expressions for the output photon counting distributions binned over multiple optical modes. We apply this method to validate boson…