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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

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The rates of change of binary semimajor axes and eccentricities for different disk Mach numbers, holding ﹩\nu ={10}^{-3}﹩ constant. Rates of eccentricity excitation and putative equilibrium eccentricities appear to increase monotonically for ﹩{ \mathcal M }\,\geqslant \,20﹩.

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