[ascl:1308.002]
LOSSCONE: Capture rates of stars by a supermassive black hole
LOSSCONE computes the rates of capture of stars by supermassive black holes. It uses a stationary and time-dependent solutions for the Fokker-Planck equation describing the evolution of the distribution function of stars due to two-body relaxation, and works for arbitrary spherical and axisymmetric galactic models that are provided by the user in the form of M(r), the cumulative mass as a function of radius.
- Code site:
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http://eugvas.net/software/losscone/
- Described in:
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...774...87V
- Bibcode:
- 2013ascl.soft08002V