A Star Whose Velocity Vector has Fallen into the Loss Cone (IMAGE)

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

A Star Whose Velocity Vector has Fallen into the Loss Cone

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This is a star whose velocity vector has fallen into the loss cone. BH denotes a black hole, and rcapt is the radius of capture.

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This image appears on the authors' website with computational software: http://td.lpi.ru/~eugvas/losscone/

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