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Converged Simulations of the Nozzle Shock in Tidal Disruption Events

  • Authors: Fangyi (Fitz) Hu, Ilya Mandel, Rebecca Nealon, Daniel J. Price

Fangyi (Fitz) Hu et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 996 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Difference in initial orbital energy and final orbital energy after splitting as a function of distance from the MBH for various splitting methods. The difference in energies is lowest across all radii for the method that splits particles along the geodesic and updates the metric (Method 5)—the method we employ in this work.

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