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The efficiency of resonant relaxation around a massive black hole

Eilon, Ehud, Kupi, Gábor, Alexander, Tal

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Resonant relaxation (RR) is a rapid relaxation process that operates in the nearly-Keplerian potential near a massive black hole (MBH).

RR dominates the dynamics of compact remnants that inspiral into a MBH and emit gravitational waves (extreme mass ratio inspiral events, EMRIs).
RR can either increase the EMRI rate, or strongly suppress it, depending on its still poorly-determined efficiency.
We use small-scale Newtonian N-body simulations to measure the RR efficiency and to explore its possible dependence on the stellar number density profile around the MBH, and the mass-ratio between the MBH and a star (a single-mass stellar population is assumed).

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