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Black hole disks in galactic nuclei
- Abstract:
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Gravitational torques among objects orbiting a supermassive black hole drive the rapid reorientation of orbital planes in nuclear star clusters (NSCs), a process known as vector resonant relaxation. In this Letter, we determine the statistical equilibrium of systems with a distribution of masses, semimajor axes, and eccentricities. We average the interaction over the apsidal precession time and construct a Monte Carlo Markov chain method to sample the microcanonical ensemble of the NSC. We ex...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Physical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Physical Review Letters
- Volume:
- 121
- Issue:
- 10
- Article number:
- 101101
- Publication date:
- 2018-09-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-24
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1079-7114
- ISSN:
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0031-9007
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1128091
- Local pid:
- pubs:1128091
- Deposit date:
- 2020-08-24
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- Copyright holder:
- American Physical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- © 2018 American Physical Society.
- Notes:
- This is the publisher's version of the article. The final version is available online from the American Physical Society at: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.101101
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