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An End-to-End Numerical Framework for Tidal Disruption Events with AthenaK

In a tidal disruption event (TDE), a star is torn apart by the tidal field of a black hole (BH), and its bound debris returns over many orbits to form an accretion disk. We present …

hongxuan-jiang
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Rapid Energy Dissipation by Colliding Waves in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas

Rapid dissipation of magnetic energy in highly magnetized environments around neutron stars and black holes is a key open question in high-energy astrophysics. We develop a general …

tianshu-wu
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From Inspiral to Expansion: The Wake-Driven Torque on Binary Black Holes in Gaseous Medium

Binary black holes (BBHs) in gaseous medium, such as active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks, are important gravitational-wave sources, yet the gas-driven torque that governs their …

jixuan-yang
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Tidal Heating of Stellar Clusters in Fuzzy Dark Matter Halos

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies serve as powerful testing grounds for wave dark matter models through dynamical stellar heating. Previous simulation-based work derived a lower bound on …

yiheng-liu
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MicroTidal Disruption Events at Galactic Centers

What may happen when a black hole collides with a white dwarf?

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Xinyu Li
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The effects of star-gas interactions on binary evolution in open clusters

Star-gas interactions can provide gravitational feedback that influences the dynamical evolution of stellar clusters, through processes such as dynamical friction (DF) and its …

jixuan-yang
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Black Hole Collisions with Thin Accretion Disks: OJ 287 and Small Mass Ratio Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates featured image

Black Hole Collisions with Thin Accretion Disks: OJ 287 and Small Mass Ratio Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates

The first ever global simulation of OJ-287 where a companion black hole collides with the disk of the central black hole.

sean-ressler
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Force-free Wave Interaction in Magnetar Magnetospheres: Computational Modeling in Axisymmetry featured image

Force-free Wave Interaction in Magnetar Magnetospheres: Computational Modeling in Axisymmetry

How waves interact in the magnetar magnetosphere?

jens-mahlmann
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