Eccentricity and Inclination Excitation of Stellar Orbits around Merging Black Hole Binaries
Identifying the formation channels of merging compact-object binaries remains a fundamental challenge in gravitational-wave (GW) astrophysics. Here we formulate a generalized framework incorporating both third-body perturbations and post-Newtonian effects to investigate the resonance-driven excitation of eccentricity a...