Accretion-disk formation around orbiting stellar black holes in gaseous star clusters

arXiv:2607.12465 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-14 · Read on arXiv

Zacharias Roupas

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-07-14

Code: https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/athena

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Mass Segregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Second-Generation Mass Peak in the Gravitational-Wave Population as a Probe of Globular Clusters
• GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries

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