Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

Observational signatures of supermassive black hole binaries

DJ D'Orazio, M Charisi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16896, 2023 - arxiv.org
Despite solid theoretical and observational grounds for the pairing of supermassive black
holes (SMBHs) after galaxy mergers, definitive evidence for the existence of close (sub …

Eccentric binaries in retrograde discs

C Tiede, DJ D'Orazio - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Modern numerical hydrodynamics tools have recently enabled detailed examinations of
binaries accreting from prograde circumbinary discs. These have reframed the current …

Preferential accretion and circumbinary disc precession in eccentric binary systems

M Siwek, R Weinberger, DJ Muñoz… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a suite of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of binaries immersed in
circumbinary accretion discs (CBDs). For the first time, we investigate the preferential …

Dual AGN in the Horizon-AGN simulation and their link to galaxy and massive black hole mergers, with an excursus on multiple AGN

M Volonteri, H Pfister, R Beckmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The occurrence of dual active galactic nuclei (AGN) on scales of a few tens of kpc can be
used to study merger-induced accretion on massive black holes (MBHs) and to derive clues …

Resolving massive black hole binary evolution via adaptive particle splitting

A Franchini, A Lupi, A Sesana - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of the interaction of a massive black hole binary with its gaseous environment is
crucial in order to be able to predict merger rates and possible electromagnetic counterparts …

Simulated Bars May Be Shorter but Are Not Slower Than Those Observed: TNG50 versus MaNGA

N Frankel, A Pillepich, HW Rix… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Galactic bars are prominent dynamical structures within disk galaxies whose size, formation
time, strength, and pattern speed influence the dynamical evolution of their hosts' galaxies …

Dirty waveforms: multiband harmonic content of gas-embedded gravitational wave sources

L Zwick, A Derdzinski, M Garg… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the effect of stochastic torque fluctuations on the orbital evolution and the
gravitational wave (GW) emission of gas-embedded sources with intermediate and extreme …

Accretion-mediated spin–eccentricity correlations in LISA massive black hole binaries

M Garg, C Tiede, DJ D'Orazio - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We examine expected effective spin () and orbital eccentricity () correlations for a population
of observable equal-mass massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with total redshifted mass …

RABBITS–I. The crucial role of nuclear star formation in driving the coalescence of supermassive black hole binaries

S Liao, D Irodotou, PH Johansson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this study of the 'Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical
Simulations'(RABBITS) series, we focus on the hardening and coalescing process of …