Ram-pressure Stripping of a Kicked Hill Sphere: Prompt Electromagnetic Emission from the Merger of Stellar Mass Black Holes in an AGN Accretion Disk

McKernan, B.; E. S. Ford, K.; Bartos, I.; J. Graham, M.; Lyra, W.; Marka, S.; Marka, Z.; P. Ross, N.; Stern, D.; Yang, Y.

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab4886

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Ram-pressure Stripping of a Kicked Hill Sphere: Prompt Electromagnetic Emission from the Merger of Stellar Mass Black Holes in an AGN Accretion Disk

Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters • Oct 17, 2019

Authors:

B. McKernan

K. E. S. Ford

I. Bartos

Abstract

Abstract Accretion disks around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are promising sites for stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers due to mass segregation and merger acceleration by disk gas torques. Here we show that a gravitational-wave (GW) kick at BH merger causes ram-pressure stripping of gas within...

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Physics

Astrophysics

Supermassive black hole

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