Effects of recoiling black holes on surrounding disks

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Abstract

The dynamics of a binary black hole can give rise to a final black hole with a recoil velocity. When a circumbinary disk is present, it will be disturbed by the recoiling black hole, possibly producing shocks and heating the gas. The hot gas can produce electromagnetic radiation through a variety of processes. In this work we study the effects of a recoiling black hole on a thick gaseous disk for different magnitude and orientations of the recoil velocity.

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Authors

  • Miguel Megevand

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001

  • Luis Lehner

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001

  • Matthew Anderson

    • Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

  • Eric Hirschmann

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602

  • Steven Liebling

    • Department of Physics, Long Island University--C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY 11548

  • David Neilsen

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602