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arxiv: 1501.04012 · v1 · pith:KWI7FJIRnew · submitted 2015-01-16 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA

Formation of discs around super-massive black hole binaries

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We model numerically the evolution of $10^4M_\odot$ turbulent molecular clouds in near-radial infall onto $10^6M_\odot$, equal-mass super-massive black hole binaries, using a modified version of the SPH code GADGET-3. We investigate the different gas structures formed depending on the relative inclination between the binary and the cloud orbits. Our first results indicate that an aligned orbit produces mini-discs around each black hole, almost aligned with the binary; a perpendicular orbit produces misaligned mini-discs; and a counter-aligned orbit produces a circumbinary, counter-rotating ring.

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