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The Pairing of Accreting Massive Black Holes in Multiphase Circumnuclear Disks: the Interplay Between Radiative Cooling, Star Formation, and Feedback Processes

  • Authors: Rafael Souza Lima, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo, and Jillian M. Bellovary

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 838 13.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Gas density edge-on projection and secondary BH’s position for run C (see Table 1). The first panel is the initial state of the disk and is also representative of the vertical structure of the disk in the adiabatic runs for all times. The blue dot indicates the secondary BH position. As the gas cools down, it becomes denser as it offers less pressure support against gravity, finally leading to the formation of clumps that are scattered around. In the bottom right panel, we can see a returning massive clump that was scattered out far from the disk plane.

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