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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 15.

The relative standard deviation of the accretion rate onto the primary (﹩\delta {\dot{M}}_{1}﹩) and onto the secondary (﹩\delta {\dot{M}}_{2}﹩), computed over the final 500 orbital periods of each simulation. Accretion is never steady in an absolute sense. However, in cases where the cavity eccentricity is below e ≲ 10−3 or so, the level of normalized variability is below ∼1%. At most mass ratios, the degree of variability is greater for binaries in colder disks.

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