Extreme Resonant Eccentricity Excitation of Stars around Merging Black-Hole Binary

Bin Liu1,2, Dong Lai3,4

  • 1Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics, <a href="https://ror.org/00a2xv884">Zhejiang University</a>, 310058 Hangzhou, China.

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