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AGN Disks Harden the Mass Distribution of Stellar-mass Binary Black Hole Mergers by Yang, Y., Bartos, I., Haiman, Z., Kocsis, B., Márka, Z., Stone, N. C., Márka, S.

“…The growing number of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers discovered by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are starting to constrain the binaries' origin and…”
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Intermediate mass black hole formation in compact young massive star clusters by Rizzuto, Francesco Paolo, Naab, Thorsten, Spurzem, Rainer, Giersz, Mirek, Ostriker, J P, Stone, N C, Wang, Long, Berczik, Peter, Rampp, M

“…ABSTRACT Young dense massive star clusters are promising environments for the formation of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) through collisions. We present…”
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A radio jet from the optical and x-ray bright stellar tidal disruption flare ASASSN-14li by van Velzen, S., Anderson, G. E., Stone, N. C., Fraser, M., Wevers, T., Metzger, B. D., Jonker, P. G., van der Horst, A. J., Staley, T. D., Mendez, A. J., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Hodgkin, S. T., Campbell, H. C., Fender, R. P.

“…The tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole leads to a short-lived thermal flare. Despite extensive searches, radio follow-up observations of…”
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Gravitational-wave localization alone can probe origin of stellar-mass black hole mergers by Bartos, I., Haiman, Z., Marka, Z., Metzger, B. D., Stone, N. C., Marka, S.

“…The recent discovery of gravitational waves from stellar-mass binary black hole mergers by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory opened the…”
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Tidal Disruption Event AT2020ocn: Early Time X-Ray Flares Caused by a Possible Disk Alignment Process by Cao, Z., Jonker, P. G., Pasham, D. R., Wen, S., Stone, N. C., Zabludoff, A. I.

“…Abstract A tidal disruption event (TDE) may occur when a star is torn apart by the tidal force of a black hole (BH). Eventually, an accretion disk is thought…”
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AT2018fyk: Candidate Tidal Disruption Event by a (Super)Massive Black Hole Binary by Wen, S., Jonker, P. G., Levan, A. J., Li, D., Stone, N. C., Zabludoff, A. I., Cao, Z., Wevers, T., Pasham, D. R., Lewin, C., Kara, E.

“…Abstract The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018fyk has unusual X-ray, UV, and optical light curves that decay over the first ∼600 days, rebrighten, and decay…”
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Formation of an Accretion Flow by Bonnerot, C., Stone, N. C.

“…After a star has been tidally disrupted by a black hole, the debris forms an elongated stream. We start by studying the evolution of this gas before its bound…”
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An overabundance of black hole X-ray binaries in the Galactic Centre from tidal captures by Generozov, A, Stone, N C, Metzger, B D, Ostriker, J P

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Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption by Stone, N. C., Vasiliev, E., Kesden, M., Rossi, E. M., Perets, H. B., Amaro-Seoane, P.

“…Tidal disruption events occur rarely in any individual galaxy. Over the last decade, however, time-domain surveys have begun to accumulate statistical samples…”
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Implications from Late-time X-Ray Detections of Optically Selected Tidal Disruption Events: State Changes, Unification, and Detection Rates by Jonker, P. G., Stone, N. C., Generozov, A., Velzen, S. van, Metzger, B.

“…We present Chandra X-ray observations of four optically selected tidal disruption events (TDEs) obtained 4-9 yr after discovery. Three sources were detected…”
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The influence of circumnuclear environment on the radio emission from TDE jets by Generozov, A, Mimica, P, Metzger, B D, Stone, N C, Giannios, D, Aloy, M A

“…Dozens of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been identified at optical, UV and X-ray wavelengths. A small fraction of these, most notably Swift…”
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The rapidly spinning intermediate-mass black hole 3XMM J150052.0+015452 by Cao, Z, Jonker, P G, Wen, S, Stone, N C, Zabludoff, A I

“…ABSTRACT A star tidally disrupted by a black hole can form an accretion disc with a super-Eddington mass accretion rate; the X-ray emission produced by the…”
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The thermodynamics of stellar multiplicity: an analytic model for the dynamical evolution of binary star populations in dense stellar environments due to single–binary interactions by Leigh, N W C, Stone, N C, Webb, J J, Lyra, W

“…ABSTRACT We recently derived, using the density-of-states approximation, analytic distribution functions for the outcomes of direct single-binary scatterings…”
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A generalized Bondi accretion model for the galactic centre by Yalinewich, A, Sari, R, Generozov, A, Stone, N C, Metzger, B D

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XMM-Newton-discovered Fast X-ray Transients: host galaxies and limits on contemporaneous detections of optical counterparts by Eappachen, D, Jonker, P G, Quirola-Vásquez, J, Sánchez, D Mata, Inkenhaag, A, Levan, A J, Fraser, M, Torres, M A P, Bauer, F E, Chrimes, A A, Stern, D, Graham, M J, Smartt, S J, Smith, K W, Ravasio, M E, Zabludoff, A I, Yue, M, Stoppa, F, Malesani, D B, Stone, N C, Wen, S

“…ABSTRACT Extragalactic fast X-ray transients (FXTs) are a class of soft (0.3–10 keV) X-ray transients lasting a few hundred seconds to several hours. Several…”
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The Process of Stellar Tidal Disruption by Supermassive Black Holes by Rossi, E M, Stone, N C, Law-Smith J A P, Macleod, M, Lodato, G, Dai, J L, Mandel, I

“…Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are among the brightest transients in the optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray sky. These flares are set into motion when a star is…”
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Civic Capacity and Urban Education by Stone, Clarence N.

“…In 1993, a team of political scientists launched an 11-city study of school reform, centering on the concept of civic capacity. In the field of urban…”
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The Rapidly Spinning Intermediate-Mass Black Hole 3XMM J150052.0+015452 by Cao, Z, Jonker, P. G, Wen, S, Stone, N. C, Zabludoff, A. I

“…A star tidally disrupted by a black hole can form an accretion disc with a super-Eddington mass accretion rate; the X-ray emission produced by the inner disc…”
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The Atlanta Experience Re-examined: The Link Between Agenda and Regime Change by Stone, Clarence N.

“…In recent years, Atlanta appears unable to move from diffuse problem recognition to the framing of a broad program of action, despite major problems associated…”
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AT2018fyk: Candidate Tidal Disruption Event by a (Super)massive Black Hole Binary by Wen, S, Jonker, P. G, Levan, A. J, Li, D, Stone, N. C, Zabludoff, A. I, Cao, Z, Wevers, T, Pasham, D. R, Lewin, C, Kara, E

“…The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018fyk has unusual X-ray, UV, and optical light curves that decay over the first $\sim$600d, rebrighten, and decay again…”
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