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Figure 18: Schematic pictures for the three types of merger process that have been found to date. Left (type-I): the NS is tidally-disrupted and the extent of the tidally disrupted material is as large as or larger than the BH surface area. Middle (type-II): the NS is not tidally disrupted and simply swallowed by the BH. Right (type-III): the NS is tidally disrupted and the extent of the tidally disrupted material in the vicinity of the BH horizon is smaller than the BH surface area. The solid black sphere is the BH, the blue distorted ellipsoid is the NS, the solid red circle is the location of the BH ISCO, and the dashed circle is the location of the tidal-disruption limit. This figure is taken from [109]. |