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In this chapter, we review the standard TDE rate calculation in greater detail than was covered in the introduction. This is meant to provide context for the following two chapters of this thesis, which cover original work on ways in which tidal disruption rates are affected by SMBH recoil.
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In this chapter we denote three dimensional radii with r rather than R to avoid confusion with an angular momentum-like variable.
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Generalizing this calculation to a realistic present day mass spectrum increases TDE rates by a factor \(\lesssim 2\) (Magorrian and Tremaine 1999).
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Stone, N. (2015). Tidal Disruption Rates from Two-Body Relaxation. In: The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12676-0_2
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