Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

A review of quasi-periodic oscillations from black hole X-ray binaries: observation and theory

AR Ingram, SE Motta - New Astronomy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Black hole and neutron star X-ray binary systems routinely show quasi-periodic oscillations
(QPOs) in their X-ray flux. Despite being strong, easily measurable signals, their physical …

Formation and evolution of compact-object binaries in AGN disks

H Tagawa, Z Haiman, B Kocsis - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The astrophysical origin of gravitational wave (GW) events discovered by LIGO/VIRGO
remains an outstanding puzzle. In active galactic nuclei (AGNs), compact-object binaries …

Phantom: A smoothed particle hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code for astrophysics

DJ Price, J Wurster, TS Tricco, C Nixon… - Publications of the …, 2018 - cambridge.org
We present Phantom, a fast, parallel, modular, and low-memory smoothed particle
hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics code developed over the last decade for …

The masses and spins of neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes

MC Miller, JM Miller - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars represent extremes in gravity, density, and
magnetic fields. They therefore serve as key objects in the study of multiple frontiers of …

Spin evolution of stellar-mass black hole binaries in active galactic nuclei

H Tagawa, Z Haiman, I Bartos… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The astrophysical origin of gravitational-wave (GW) events is one of the most timely
problems in the wake of the LIGO/Virgo discoveries. In active galactic nuclei (AGNs) …

On the diffusive propagation of warps in thin accretion discs

G Lodato, DJ Price - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we revisit the issue of the propagation of warps in thin and viscous accretion
discs. In this regime, warps are known to propagate diffusively, with a diffusion coefficient …

Spin-driven jet feedback in idealized simulations of galaxy groups and clusters

F Huško, CG Lacey, J Schaye… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We implement a black hole spin evolution and jet feedback model into SWIFT, a smoothed
particle hydrodynamics code. The jet power is determined self-consistently assuming that …

Circularization of tidally disrupted stars around spinning supermassive black holes

K Hayasaki, N Stone, A Loeb - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We study the circularization of tidally disrupted stars on bound orbits around spinning
supermassive black holes by performing 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations …

Bardeen–Petterson alignment, jets, and magnetic truncation in GRMHD simulations of tilted thin accretion discs

M Liska, A Tchekhovskoy, A Ingram… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Prevalent around luminous accreting black holes, thin discs are challenging to resolve in
numerical simulations. When the disc and black hole angular momentum vectors are …