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High-velocity stars as a result of encounters between stars and massive binary black holes in galactic nuclei

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Numerical simulations of the motions of stars in the gravitational fields of binary black holes with various component mass ratios have been carried out. Two models are considered: (1) the two-body problem with two fixed centers; (2) the general three-body problem. The first model is applicable only over short times Δt ≫ T, where T is the period of the binary system. The second model is applicable at all times except for during close encounters of stars with one of the binary components, r ≤ 0.00002 pc, where r is the distance from the star to the nearer black hole. In very close passages, relativistic corrections must be taken into account. Estimates of the probability of formation of high-velocity stars as a result of such interactions are obtained. It is shown that this mechanism is not suitable for the nucleus of our Galaxy due to the probable absence of a second massive black hole in the central region of the Galaxy.

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  1. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Universitetskii pr. 13, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    S. V. Zhuiko

  2. St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskii pr. 28, Petrodvorets, 198504, Russia

    V. V. Orlov & K. S. Shirokova

  3. Central (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pulkovskoe shosse 65, St. Petersburg, 196140, Russia

    V. V. Orlov & K. S. Shirokova

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Zhuiko, V.V. Orlov, K.S. Shirokova, 2017, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2017, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 53–58.

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Zhuiko, S.V., Orlov, V.V. & Shirokova, K.S. High-velocity stars as a result of encounters between stars and massive binary black holes in galactic nuclei. Astron. Rep. 61, 47–52 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772916120076

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