Adventures with planets and binaries in accretion discs

The primary idea behind the work in this thesis is that accretion discs interacting with astrophysical bodies, from planets to supermassive black holes (SMBHs), can strongly affect the dynamical behaviour of those bodies. While this idea is by no means new, observational and theoretical developments...

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Main Author: Dunhill, Alexander Charles
Other Authors: Alexander, Richard; Wynn, Graham
Published: University of Leicester 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.593684