Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

Electromagnetic counterparts to massive black-hole mergers

T Bogdanović, MC Miller, L Blecha - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2022 - Springer
The next two decades are expected to open the door to the first coincident detections of
electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational-wave (GW) signatures associated with massive …

Orbital evolution of binaries in circumbinary discs

M Siwek, R Weinberger… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the to-date largest parameter space exploration of binaries in circumbinary discs
(CBDs), deriving orbital evolution prescriptions for eccentric, unequal mass binaries from our …

Long-term evolution of binary orbits induced by circumbinary disks

R Valli, C Tiede, A Vigna-Gómez, J Cuadra… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Circumbinary disks are found in a variety of astrophysical scenarios, spanning binary star
formation to accreting supermassive black hole binaries. Depending on the characteristics of …

The Decoupling of Binaries from Their Circumbinary Disks

AJ Dittmann, G Ryan, MC Miller - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We have investigated, both analytically and numerically, accreting supermassive black hole
binaries as they inspiral due to gravitational radiation to elucidate the decoupling of binaries …

A survey of disc thickness and viscosity in circumbinary accretion: Binary evolution, variability, and disc morphology

AJ Dittmann, G Ryan - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Much of the parameter space relevant to the evolution of astrophysical circumbinary
accretion discs remains unexplored. We have carried out a suite of circumbinary disc …

Eccentric binaries in retrograde discs

C Tiede, DJ D'Orazio - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Modern numerical hydrodynamics tools have recently enabled detailed examinations of
binaries accreting from prograde circumbinary discs. These have reframed the current …

Preferential accretion and circumbinary disc precession in eccentric binary systems

M Siwek, R Weinberger, DJ Muñoz… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a suite of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of binaries immersed in
circumbinary accretion discs (CBDs). For the first time, we investigate the preferential …

Disappearing thermal X-ray emission as a tell-tale signature of merging massive black hole binaries

LM Krauth, J Davelaar, Z Haiman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect
gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole binaries (MBHB). Finding the …

Eccentric Minidisks in Accreting Binaries

JR Westernacher-Schneider, J Zrake… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that gas disks around the components of an orbiting binary system (so-called
minidisks) may be susceptible to a resonant instability that causes the minidisks to become …