Drifting through the medium: kicks and self-propulsion of binaries within accretion disks and other environments
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Example of a binary moving through a constant density medium. More details can be seen in Cardoso and Macedo, in submission.
For this binary, we considered the following physical quantities (in units of G=c=1) \[\rho M^2=10^{-20},~a=10^{5}M,~\sigma=50{\rm km/s},~{\rm and}~q=2,\] where \[\rho={\rm medium\, density},~ a={\rm binary \, separation},\\ \sigma={\rm dispersion\, of\, the\, matter\, Maxwellian\, velocity\, distribution},\\ q={\rm binary\, mass\, ratio},~ M={\rm binary\, total\, mass}. \] |
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You can download a Mathematica notebook that integrates the equations of motion of the above binary here.