Stellar mergers and chemical element mixing: implications for the metamorphic stellar evolution in AGN disks

arXiv:2608.00242 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-07-31 · Read on arXiv

Yanlong Shi, Xiaoshan Huang, Douglas N. C. Lin, Norman Murray

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-07-31

Comments: Revised after a referee report; comments welcome

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

Terminology

Abundance — 73× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Core — 67× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
AGN — 57× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Diffusion Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
Diffusion Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Equation of State (EoS) — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Anti-correlation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Velocity Dispersion — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

Theory, Simulations and Observations of Stellar Mergers

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