Intermediate States in Chaotic Triple Evolution and Applications to Black Hole Merger Statistics

arXiv:2606.11294 · astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-06-09 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-06-09

Updated: 2026-10-19

Code: https://github.com/DinaMeylakh/probab3

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• N-body simulations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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