Title: Tilted Planets: Exciting Exoplanetary Obliquities via Spin-Orbit Resonances Abstract: The obliquity of a planet, the tilt between its spin and orbital axes, reflects the evolutionary history of the planet. … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Yubo Su (Princeton University)"
Please join us for this year’s introductory event for the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics. Meet the people who make up the CRA, and learn about the science & organization for … Continue reading "Welcome to the CRA"
Title: Black hole mergers in AGN disks and Few-body code SpaceHub Abstract: Active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks may be important sites for stellar mass binary black hole (BBH) mergers, but … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Yihan Wang (Nevada Center for Astrophysics)"
Title: Intermediate-mass black holes: past, present, future Abstract: Despite their key importance from stellar to cosmological scales, intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are one of the unsolved puzzles of modern astronomy … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Giacomo Fragione (Northwestern)"
Title: Formation of Black Hole Binaries in AGN disks through Close Encounters Abstract: The possibility of binary black hole (BH) mergers in active galactic nucleus (AGN) accretion disks has recently … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Jiaru Li (Cornell)"
