Suppression of stellar tidal disruption rates by anisotropic initial
  conditions
  We compute the rates of capture of stars by supermassive black holes, using
time-dependent Fokker--Planck equation with initial conditions that have a
deficit of stars on low-angular-momentum orbits. One class of initial
conditions has a gap in phase space created by a binary black hole, and the
other has a globally tangentially-anisotropic velocity distribution. We find
that for galactic nuclei that are younger than ~0.1 relaxation times, the flux
of stars into the black hole is suppressed with respect to the steady-state
value. This effect may substantially reduce the number of observable tidal
disruption flares in galaxies with black hole masses M>10^7 Msun.
