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Studying Binary Formation under Dynamical Friction Using Hill's Problem
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Using the equations of motion from Hill's problem, with added accelerations for different forms of dynamical friction, we provide the (to-date) broadest scale-free study of friction-driven binary formation in gaseous disks and stellar clusters. We focus mainly on binary formation between stellar-mass black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), considering both gas dynamical friction (GDF) from AGN disks and stellar dynamical friction (SDF) from the nuclear star cluster. We first find simple, dimensionless friction coefficients that approximate the effects of standard models for GDF and SDF. We perform extensive simulations of Hill's problem under such friction, and we present a picture of binary formation through encounters between single stars on nearby orbits, as a function of friction parameter, eccentricity, and inclination. Notably, we find that the local binary formation rate is a linear function of the friction coefficient so long as the friction is weak. Due to the dimensionless nature of our model problem, our findings are generalizable to binary formation at all scales (e.g., intermediate-mass black holes in a star cluster, planetesimals in a gaseous disk).
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BLACK-HOLE MERGERS
ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
STAR-DISK INTERACTIONS
AGN DISCS
NEUTRON-STAR
ELECTROMAGNETIC COUNTERPARTS
HYDRODYNAMICAL EVOLUTION
ORBITAL MIGRATION
ACCRETION DISKS
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