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Hypervelocity Stars from a Supermassive Black Hole–Intermediate-mass Black Hole Binary

  • Authors: Alexander Rasskazov, Giacomo Fragione, Nathan W. C. Leigh, Hiromichi Tagawa, Alberto Sesana, Adrian Price-Whelan, and Elena Maria Rossi

2019 The Astrophysical Journal 878 17.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Top and middle: the distribution of ejection velocities (in units of the binary orbital velocity ﹩\left({v}_{0}=\sqrt{\tfrac{{GM}}{a}}\right)﹩ for different parameters of the binary. Bottom: distribution of the direction angles of the stellar escape velocity, where ﹩\theta =0﹩ is the direction of the massive BH binary angular momentum and ϕ = 0 is the direction of the SBH orbital pericenter. All distributions are normalized such that the total number is equal to 1.

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