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Eccentric Binaries Accreting from Thin Disks: Orbital Evolution

  • Authors: Alexander J. Dittmann, Geoffrey Ryan, Luciano Combi

Alexander J. Dittmann et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1001 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Time-averaged measurements of the rates of change of binary semimajor axes and eccentricities for the same simulations presented in Figure 4. Notably, while thicker disks can drive binaries to eccentricity equilibria near e ∼ 0.45, thinner disks drive binaries toward substantially higher eccentricities, e  >  0.6. All time averaging was performed over the final 1200 binary orbits of each simulation.

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