Self-consistently heated and cooled thin circumbinary disks still drive massive black hole binaries into long-lived non-accreting phases, producing X-ray-weak, optically variable sources that LSST and Roman could find.
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AGN disk capture and merger rates scale as (H/R)^{-8} and drop by 10-20 orders of magnitude in thick magnetically supported disks compared to thin thermal disks.
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Dynamics and detectability of long-lived non-accretion phases for massive black hole binaries in cold, thermally regulating disks
Self-consistently heated and cooled thin circumbinary disks still drive massive black hole binaries into long-lived non-accreting phases, producing X-ray-weak, optically variable sources that LSST and Roman could find.
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Thick Disks, Thin Hopes: Suppressed Capture and Merger Rates in AGN
AGN disk capture and merger rates scale as (H/R)^{-8} and drop by 10-20 orders of magnitude in thick magnetically supported disks compared to thin thermal disks.