Accretion Disk Formation in LIGO Black Hole Binaries - Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
Intro
A tale of two cities
Outline - Accretion disk formation during hinary assembly
Formation of close BH binaries in the field
Accretion during common envelope
The Importance of compressibility
Fallback accretion disks
Tidal excitation of spiral waves in accretion discs
The environmental influence of gas on binaries
Characteristic length scales
Timescale for orbital decay
The importance of environment
Interlude: hierarchical triples
Hydrodynamic of binaries embedded in AGN disks
accretion timescales
Postlude: Prospects for EM counterparts
Understanding the flow geometry
Taught by
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics