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Accretion within the innermost stable circular orbit: analytical thermodynamic solutions in the adiabatic limit

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 521:2 (2023) 2439-2463

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Andrew Mummery, Steven Balbus
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Photometry and spectroscopy of the Type Icn supernova 2021ckj: The diverse properties of the ejecta and circumstellar matter of Type Icn SNe

(2023)

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T Nagao, H Kuncarayakti, K Maeda, T Moore, A Pastorello, S Mattila, K Uno, SJ Smartt, SA Sim, L Ferrari, L Tomasella, JP Anderson, T-W Chen, L Galbany, H Gao, M Gromadzki, CP Gutiérrez, C Inserra, E Kankare, EA Magnier, TE Müller-Bravo, A Reguitti, DR Young
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Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event AT2021lwx

(2023)

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P Wiseman, Y Wang, S Hönig, N Castro-Segura, P Clark, C Frohmaier, MD Fulton, G Leloudas, M Middleton, TE Müller-Bravo, A Mummery, M Pursiainen, SJ Smartt, K Smith, M Sullivan, JP Anderson, JA Acosta Pulido, P Charalampopoulos, M Banerji, M Dennefeld, L Galbany, M Gromadzki, CP Gutiérrez, N Ihanec, E Kankare, A Lawrence, B Mockler, T Moore, M Nicholl, F Onori, T Petrushevska, F Ragosta, S Rest, M Smith, T Wevers, R Carini, T-W Chen, K Chambers, H Gao, M Huber, C Inserra, E Magnier, L Makrygianni, M Toy, F Vincentelli, DR Young
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The Black Hole Candidate Swift J1728.9$-$3613 and the Supernova Remnant G351.9$-$0.9

(2023)

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Mayura Balakrishnan, Paul A Draghis, Jon M Miller, Joe Bright, Robert Fender, Mason Ng, Edward Cackett, Andrew Fabian, Kip Kuntz, James CA Miller-Jones, Daniel Proga, Paul S Ray, John Raymond, Mark Reynolds, Abderahmen Zoghbi
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Quiescent and Active Galactic Nuclei as Factories of Merging Compact Objects in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy

UNIVERSE MDPI AG 9:3 (2023) ARTN 138

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Manuel Arca Sedda, Smadar Naoz, Bence Kocsis

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Galactic nuclei harbouring a central supermassive black hole (SMBH), possibly surrounded by a dense nuclear cluster (NC), represent extreme environments that house a complex interplay of many physical processes that uniquely affect stellar formation, evolution, and dynamics. The discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by merging black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs), funnelled a huge amount of work focused on understanding how compact object binaries (COBs) can pair up and merge together. Here, we review from a theoretical standpoint how different mechanisms concur with the formation, evolution, and merger of COBs around quiescent SMBHs and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), summarising the main predictions for current and future (GW) detections and outlining the possible features that can clearly mark a galactic nuclei origin.
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