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arXiv:1509.00158 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 1 Sep 2015 (v1), last revised 20 Dec 2016 (this version, v2)]

Title:Boosted Tidal Disruption by Massive Black Hole Binaries During Galaxy Mergers FROM The View of N-Body Simulation

Authors:Shuo Li, F.K. Liu, Peter Berczik, Rainer Spurzem
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Abstract:Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are productions of the hierarchical galaxy formation model. There are many close connections between central SMBH and its host galaxy because the former plays very important roles on the formation and evolution of a galaxy. For this reason, the evolution of SMBHBs in merging galaxies is an essential problem. Since there are many discussions about SMBHB evolution in gas rich environment, we focus on the quiescent galaxy, using tidal disruption as a diagnostic tool. Our study is based on a series of numerical large particle number direct N-body simulations for dry major mergers. According to the simulation results, the evolution can be divided into three phases. In phase I, the tidal disruption rate for two well separated SMBHs in merging system has similar level to single SMBH in isolate galaxy. After two SMBHs getting close enough to form a bound binary in phase II, the disruption rate can be enhanced for ~ 2 order of magnitudes within a short time. This "boosted" disruption stage finishes after the SMBHB evolving to compact binary system in phase III, corresponding to a drop back of disruption rate to a level of a few times higher than that in Phase I. How to correctly extrapolate our N-body simulation results to reality, and implications of our results to observations, are discussed too.
Comments: 16 pages, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Subjects: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
Cite as: arXiv:1509.00158 [astro-ph.GA]
  (or arXiv:1509.00158v2 [astro-ph.GA] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1509.00158
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/195

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From: Shuo Li [view email]
[v1] Tue, 1 Sep 2015 06:54:08 UTC (136 KB)
[v2] Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:37:26 UTC (138 KB)
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