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The Evolution of Accreting Binaries: From Brown Dwarfs to Supermassive Black Holes

  • Authors: Alexander J. Dittmann, Geoffrey Ryan

Alexander J. Dittmann and Geoffrey Ryan 2024 The Astrophysical Journal 967 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 13.

Time-averaged profiles of the disk surface density, with streamlines of the time-averaged momentum field, in the frame of the binary for a few binaries accreting from ﹩{ \mathcal M }=10﹩ disks. At lower mass ratios more gas that is stripped from the cavity by the primary eventually becomes bound to the secondary, and less gas flows from the minidisk of the secondary onto the primary. These morphological changes coincide with decreases in the gravitational torques at q = 0.2 for these systems.

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