Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Changing-Look AGN Behaviour Induced by Disk-Captured Tidal Disruption Events
Recent observations of changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN) hint at a frequency of accretion activity not fully explained by …
Yihan Wang, Douglas N.~C. Lin, Bing Zhang, Zhaohuan Zhu
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Changing-Look AGN Behaviour Induced by Disk-Captured Tidal Disruption Events
Effective two-body scatterings around a massive object
Yihan Wang, Saavik Ford, Rosalba Perna, Barry McKernan, Zhaohuan Zhu, Bing Zhang
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Stellar/BH Population in AGN Disks: Direct Binary Formation from Capture Objects in Nuclei Clusters
The Active Galatic Nuclei(AGN) disk has been proposed as a potential channel for the merger of binary black holes. The population of …
Yihan Wang, Zhaohuan Zhu, Douglas N.~C. Lin
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Stellar/BH Population in AGN Disks: Direct Binary Formation from Capture Objects in Nuclei Clusters
SpaceHub: A high-performance gravity integration toolkit for few-body problems in astrophysics
We present the open source few-body gravity integration toolkit {\tt SpaceHub}. {\tt SpaceHub} offers a variety of algorithmic methods, …
Yi-Han Wang, Nathan W.~C. Leigh, Bin Liu, Rosalba Perna
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SpaceHub: A high-performance gravity integration toolkit for few-body problems in astrophysics
Partial tidal disruption events by stellar mass black holes: Gravitational instability of stream and impact from remnant core
In dense star clusters, such as globular and open clusters, dynamical interactions between stars and black holes (BHs) can be …
Yi-Han Wang, Rosalba Perna, Philip J. Armitage
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Partial tidal disruption events by stellar mass black holes: Gravitational instability of stream and impact from remnant core
Hot Jupiter and Ultra-cold Saturn Formation in Dense Star Clusters
The discovery of high incidence of hot Jupiters in dense clusters challenges the field-based hot Jupiter formation theory. In dense …
Yi-Han Wang, Nathan W.~C. Leigh, Rosalba Perna, Michael M. Shara
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Hot Jupiter and Ultra-cold Saturn Formation in Dense Star Clusters
Planetary architectures in interacting stellar environments
Yi-Han Wang, Rosalba Perna, Nathan W.~C. Leigh
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Giant Planet Swaps during Close Stellar Encounters
Yi-Han Wang, Rosalba Perna, Nathan W.~C. Leigh
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The cosmological distribution of compact object mergers from dynamical interactions with SMBH binaries
Yi-Han Wang, Nathan W.~C. Leigh, Alberto Sesana, Rosalba Perna
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Constraining the Black Hole Initial Mass Function with LIGO/Virgo Observations
Prior to the detection of black holes (BHs) via the gravitational waves (GWs) that they generate at merger, the presence of BHs was …
Rosalba Perna, Yi-Han Wang, Will M. Farr, Nathan Leigh, Matteo Cantiello
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Constraining the Black Hole Initial Mass Function with LIGO/Virgo Observations