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Quasiperiodic Eruptions from Stellar-mass Black Holes Impacting Accretion Disks in Galactic Nuclei

  • Authors: Kun Liu, 坤 刘, Shang-Fei Liu, 尚飞 刘, Zhen Pan, 震 潘, Hongping Deng, 洪平 邓, Rongfeng Shen, 荣锋 申, Cong Yu, 聪 余

Kun Liu et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Vertical slices through the disk along the azimuthal direction showing the density distribution and velocity field. Arrow lengths are not to scale. (a) The bow shock is generated by a star-disk collision, and downstream material fills the low-density cavity left by the star’s passage, producing backward ejecta; (b) the perturbation induced by the sBH-disk interaction, exhibiting a bow-shock-like structure. The black hole attracts surrounding material along its path, producing a pronounced density enhancement and quickly generates backward ejecta. (The size of the black-filled part is the Bondi radius of the sBH.)

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