Rates of capture of stars by supermassive black holes in non-spherical galactic nuclei

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/24/244002MaRDI QIDQ2941017zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. I. Vasiliev

Publication date 21 January 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1760

zbMATH Keywords

supermassive black holesnon-spherical galactic nucleistar consumption

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: We consider the problem of star consumption by supermassive black holes in non-spherical (axisymmetric, triaxial) galactic nuclei. We review the previous studies of the loss-cone problem and present a novel simulation method which allows to separate out the collisional (relaxation-related) and collisionless (related to non-conservation of angular momentum) processes and determine their relative importance for the capture rates in different geometries. We show that for black holes more massive than 10^7 Msun, the enhancement of capture rate in non-spherical galaxies is substantial, with even modest triaxiality being capable of keeping the capture rate at the level of few percent of black hole mass per Hubble time.

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