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Secular Evolution of Binaries near Massive Black Holes: Formation of Compact Binaries, Merger/Collision Products and G2-like Objects

  • Authors: Snezana Prodan, Fabio Antonini, and Hagai B. Perets

Prodan, Antonini, & Perets 2015 The Astrophysical Journal 799 118.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 8.

Cumulative distribution of "mergers," evaporated systems, evolved systems, and surviving binaries for the binaries in the stellar cusp and the density profile models γ = 0.5 (upper panel) and γ = 1.5 (lower panel). The fraction of "mergers" is not affected by the choice of the slope of the density profile while the number of evaporated systems clearly is affected. Steeper density profile leads to higher fraction of evaporated systems.

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