2016-17

Accretion Dynamics in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries Protoplanetary disks are integral to the formation of low-mass stars and planets. A paradigm for the star-disk interaction has been extensively developed in the case of single stars. Most stars, however...

A Primordial Origin for Extrasolar Stellar Obliquity and its Role in Sculpting the Kepler Dichotomy ABSTRACT: The Solar System planets possess orbital planes differing by only a few degrees, inspiring the centuries-old hypothesis that planets form in...

Dynamical friction and the evolution of Supermassive Black hole Binaries: the final hundred-parsec problem ABSTRACT: Dynamical friction is a fundamental process in astrophysics and its understanding is arguably the most important contribution of...

Feeding central black holes with stars Abstract: Galactic nuclei and the Massive black holes in their centers are rich environments, where the complex stellar dynamics plays an important role in many physical phenomena. We show how the dynamics of this...