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Chris Nixon
astro-ph.HEastro-ph.GAastro-ph.SRastro-ph.EPastro-ph.COgr-qcastro-ph.IMphysics.comp-phphysics.flu-dynphysics.plasm-ph
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Tidal disruption events from supermassive black hole binaries
with Eric R. Coughlin, Philip J. Armitage, Mitchell C. Begelman
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111 papers in the corpus · 2010–2026On the formation of retrograde S-type planets in binaries with a polar circumbinary disk2608.22680v1 · Cheng Chen, Philip J. Armitage, C. J. Nixon et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
The Role of Stellar Spin in Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events2606.02692v2 · Ananya Bandopadhyay, Benjamin Amend, Eric R. Coughlin et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Scattered light signatures of flyby-induced warps in protoplanetary discs2605.22592v2 · Katie L. Milsom, Tim J. Harries, C. J. Nixon2026 · 0 citationsMon Not R Astron Soc (2026)
On the origin of anomalous dissipation in simulations of tidal disruption events2605.20327v1 · Chris Nixon, Eric R. Coughlin, Zachary L. Andalman2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
On the isotropy of viscosity in accretion discs2605.00985v1 · Chris Nixon, Jim Pringle2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
The Arc in the DX Cha Circumbinary System: Evidence For a Retrograde Circumbinary Disk2603.19983v1 · Cheng Chen, Daniela Paz Iglesias, James M. Miley et al.2026 · 2 citationsarXiv
Repeating Nuclear Transients from Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events2603.04559v1 · Ananya Bandopadhyay, Eric R. Coughlin, Julia Fancher et al.2026 · 1 citationAstronomische Nachrichten, 2026; 0:e70083
A multi-wavelength study of the 2025 low state of the intermediate polar BG CMi2601.14156v3 · A. W. Shaw, K. Mukai, C. O. Heinke et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
The Maximum Gravity Model for partial Tidal Disruption Events: Mass Loss, Peak Fallback Rate and Dependence on Stellar Properties2601.02476v1 · Ananya Bandopadhyay, Eric R. Coughlin, C. J. Nixon2026 · 1 citationarXiv
Resolving the (Debate About) Nozzle Shocks in Tidal Disruption Events2512.08928v2 · Zachary L. Andalman, Eliot Quataert, Eric R. Coughlin et al.2025 · 0 citationsarXiv
Tidal disruption events with SPH-EXA: resolving the return of the stream2510.26663v1 · Noah Kubli, Alessia Franchini, Eric R. Coughlin et al.2025 · 4 citationsarXiv
Predicting the Properties of the Fallback Rate from Tidal Disruption Events: Investigating the Maximum Gravity Model2507.16912v1 · Julia Fancher, Ananya Bandopadhyay, Eric R. Coughlin et al.2025 · 2 citationsarXiv
The Double Tidal Disruption Event AT 2022dbl Implies That at Least Some "Standard" Optical TDEs are Partial Disruptions2505.16867v1 · Lydia Makrygianni, Iair Arcavi, Megan Newsome et al.2025 · 1 citationarXiv
Repeated Tidal Interactions between Stars and Supermassive Black Holes: Mass Transfer, Stability, and Implications for Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events2504.18614v2 · Ananya Bandopadhyay, Eric R. Coughlin, C. J. Nixon2025 · 8 citationsarXiv
The kangaroo's first hop: the early fast cooling phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg2504.08886v4 · Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Peter G. Jonker, Andrew J. Levan et al.2025 · 30 citationsarXiv
EP 250108a/SN 2025kg: Observations of the most nearby Broad-Line Type Ic Supernova following an Einstein Probe Fast X-ray Transient2504.08889v4 · J. C. Rastinejad (Northwestern), A. J. Levan, P. G. Jonker et al.2025 · 36 citationsarXiv
What's kickin' in partial tidal disruption events?2503.19018v2 · Eric R. Coughlin, C. J. Nixon2025 · 3 citationsarXiv
Repeated Partial Tidal Disruptions and Quasi-Periodic Eruptions in SwJ023017.0+2836032411.05948v1 · Dheeraj Pasham, Eric Coughlin, Chris Nixon et al.2024 · 0 citationsarXiv
A Potential Second Shutoff from AT2018fyk: An updated Orbital Ephemeris of the Surviving Star under the Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event Paradigm2406.18124v1 · Dheeraj Pasham, Eric Coughlin (Syracuse), Muryel Guolo (JHU) et al.2024 · 9 citationsarXiv
On the origin of polar planets around single stars2406.16169v1 · Cheng Chen, Stanley A. Baronett, C. J. Nixon et al.2024 · 8 citationsarXiv
Repeating nuclear transients from repeating partial tidal disruption events: reproducing ASASSN-14ko and AT2020vdq2406.03675v3 · Ananya Bandopadhyay, Eric R. Coughlin, C. J. Nixon et al.2024 · 19 citationsarXiv
Revisiting the accretion disc spectra of Dwarf Novae and Novalike variables: implications for the standard disc model2406.03676v1 · Gabriella Zsidi, C. J. Nixon, T. Naylor et al.2024 · 1 citationarXiv
Lense-Thirring precession after a supermassive black hole disrupts a star.38778113 · Pasham, Dheeraj R, Zajaček, Michal, Nixon, C J et al.2024 · 35 citationsNature. 2024;630(8016):325-328
Ultra-deep cover: an exotic and jetted tidal disruption event candidate disguised as a gamma-ray burst2404.03982v1 · R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris, C. J. Nixon, E. R. Coughlin et al.2024 · 4 citationsarXiv
Alive but Barely Kicking: News from 3+ years of Swift and XMM-Newton X-ray Monitoring of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions from eRO-QPE12402.09690v1 · Dheeraj R. Pasham, Eric R. Coughlin, Michal Zajacek et al.2024 · 22 citationsarXiv
Relativistic Effects on Circumbinary Disk Evolution: Breaking the Polar Alignment around Eccentric Black Hole Binary Systems2312.09495v1 · Anna C. Childs, Rebecca G. Martin, C. J. Nixon et al.2023 · 5 citationsarXiv
On the role of numerical diffusivity in MHD simulations of global accretion disc dynamos2312.04400v1 · C. J. Nixon, C. C. T. Pringle, J. E. Pringle2023 · 6 citationsarXiv
Mergers of black hole binaries driven by misaligned circumbinary discs2311.10160v1 · Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen Lepp, Bing Zhang et al.2023 · 9 citationsarXiv
Tilted circumbinary planetary systems as efficient progenitors of free-floating planets2310.15603v1 · Cheng Chen, Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow et al.2023 · 16 citationsarXiv
The Peak of the Fallback Rate from Tidal Disruption Events: Dependence on Stellar Type2310.11496v1 · Ananya Bandopadhyay, Julia Fancher, Aluel Athian et al.2023 · 23 citationsarXiv
A trio of month long flares in the nova-like variable V704 And2309.07643v1 · Gabriella Zsidi, C. J. Nixon, T. Naylor et al.2023 · 2 citationsA&A 679, L3 (2023)
On the relative importance of shocks and self-gravity in modifying tidal disruption event debris streams2309.07216v1 · Julia Fancher, Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon2023 · 10 citationsarXiv
Monthly quasi-periodic eruptions from repeated stellar disruption by a massive black hole2309.02500v1 · P.A. Evans, C.J. Nixon (2, S. Campana et al.2023 · 57 citationsarXiv
Can a binary star host three giant circumbinary planets?2308.09841v1 · Cheng Chen, Rebecca G. Martin, C. J. Nixon2023 · 3 citationsarXiv
On the conditions for warping and breaking protoplanetary discs2306.11809v2 · Alison K. Young, Struan Stevenson, C.J. Nixon et al.2023 · 21 citationsarXiv
Orbital stability of two circumbinary planets around misaligned eccentric binaries2303.05379v2 · Cheng Chen, Stephen H. Lubow, Rebecca G. Martin et al.2023 · 7 citationsarXiv
Tidal capture of stars by supermassive black holes: implications for periodic nuclear transients and quasi-periodic eruptions2301.01300v1 · M. Cufari, C. J. Nixon, Eric R. Coughlin2023 · 17 citationsarXiv
Simulated optical light curves of super-Eddington tidal disruption events with ZEBRA flows2210.12168v1 · R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris, R. L. C. Starling, P. T. O'Brien et al.2022 · 8 citationsarXiv
Stars Crushed by Black Holes. III. Mild Compression of Radiative Stars by Supermassive Black Holes2210.01835v1 · Suman Kumar Kundu, Eric R. Coughlin, C.J.Nixon2022 · 3 citationsarXiv
A simple and accurate prescription for the tidal disruption radius of a star and the peak accretion rate in tidal disruption events2209.03982v1 · Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon2022 · 35 citationsarXiv
On the impact of relativistic gravity on the rate of tidal disruption events2207.14301v1 · Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon2022 · 23 citationsarXiv
Using the Hills Mechanism to Generate Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events and ASASSN-14ko2203.08162v1 · M. Cufari, Eric R. Coughlin, C. J. Nixon2022 · 58 citationsarXiv
Stellar Revival and Repeated Flares in Deeply Plunging Tidal Disruption Events2202.00014v1 · Chris Nixon, Eric R. Coughlin2022 · 18 citationsarXiv
Stars Crushed by Black Holes. I. On the Energy Distribution of Stellar Debris in Tidal Disruption Events2111.12735v1 · Sarah Norman, Chris Nixon, Eric R. Coughlin2021 · 21 citationsarXiv
Stars Crushed by Black Holes. II. A Physical Model of Adiabatic Compression and Shock Formation in Tidal Disruption Events2111.12736v1 · Eric R. Coughlin, Chris Nixon2021 · 13 citationsarXiv
The Eccentric Nature of Eccentric Tidal Disruption Events2110.11374v1 · M. Cufari, Eric. R. Coughlin, C. J. Nixon2021 · 28 citationsarXiv
Exploring compact binary merger host galaxies and environments with 2109.09714v2 · S. Mandhai, G. P. Lamb, N. R. Tanvir et al.2021 · 32 citationsMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 514, Issue 2, August 2022, Pages 2716-2735
Partial, zombie, and full tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes2108.04242v1 · Chris Nixon, Eric Coughlin, Patrick Miles2021 · 44 citationsarXiv
On the dynamics of low-viscosity warped discs around black holes2106.11090v2 · N. C. Drewes, C. J. Nixon2021 · 18 citationsarXiv
Disc tearing: implications for black hole accretion and AGN variability2101.05825v1 · Anagha Raj, Chris Nixon2021 · 100 citationsarXiv
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