Massive Perturber-driven Interactions of Stars with a Massive Black Hole
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We study the role of massive perturbers (MPs) in deflecting stars and binaries to almost radial (“loss-cone”) orbits, where they pass near the central massive black hole (MBH), interact with it at periapse q, and are ultimately destroyed. MPs dominate dynamical relaxation when the ratio of the 2nd moments of the MP and star mass distributions, μ2 ≡ Np 〈
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