Revisiting the Tertiary-induced Binary Black Hole Mergers: The Role of Superthermal Wide Tertiary Eccentricity Distributions
Recent studies show that the eccentricity distribution of wide binaries (semimajor axis ≳10 ^3 au) observed by Gaia tends to favor large eccentricities more strongly than the canonical thermal distribution ( P ( e ) ∝ e )—such distributions are termed “superthermal.” Motivated by this observation, w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2024-01-01
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| Series: | The Astrophysical Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad553e |