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 …

Eccentricity evolution of massive black hole binaries from formation to coalescence

A Gualandris, FM Khan, E Bortolas… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Coalescing supermassive black hole binaries (BHBs) are expected to be the loudest
sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the Universe. Detection rates for ground or space …

The competing effect of gas and stars in the evolution of massive black hole binaries

E Bortolas, A Franchini, M Bonetti… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Massive black hole binaries are predicted to form during the hierarchical assembly of cosmic
structures and will represent the loudest sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) …

Dynamics of supermassive black hole triples in the ROMULUS25 cosmological simulation

H Koehn, A Just, P Berczik, M Tremmel - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
For a pair of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the remnant of a dual galaxy merger,
well-known models exist to describe their dynamical evolution until the final coalescence …

Global torques and stochasticity as the drivers of massive black hole pairing in the young Universe

E Bortolas, PR Capelo, T Zana, L Mayer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will probe the
population of coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries up to the onset of structure …

Massive black hole mergers with orbital information: predictions from the ASTRID simulation

N Chen, Y Ni, AM Holgado, TD Matteo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We examine massive black hole (MBH) mergers and their associated gravitational wave
signals from the large-volume cosmological simulation Astrid. Astrid includes galaxy …

Eccentricity evolution in gaseous dynamical friction

Á Szölgyén, M MacLeod, A Loeb - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We analyse how drag forces modify the orbits of objects moving through extended gaseous
distributions. We consider how hydrodynamic (surface area) drag forces and dynamical …

FORGE'd in FIRE: Resolving the End of Star Formation and Structure of AGN Accretion Disks from Cosmological Initial Conditions

PF Hopkins, MY Grudic, KY Su, S Wellons… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
It has recently become possible to zoom-in from cosmological to sub-pc scales in galaxy
simulations to follow accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). However, at some …

A new discrete dynamical friction estimator based on N-body simulations

L Ma, PF Hopkins, LZ Kelley… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A long-standing problem in galactic simulations is to resolve the dynamical
friction (DF) force acting on massive black hole particles when their masses are comparable …

Dynamics of intermediate-mass black holes wandering in the milky way galaxy using the illustris TNG50 simulation

EJ Weller, F Pacucci, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The detection of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (IMBHs) in dwarf galaxies is
crucial to closing the gap in the wide mass distribution of black holes (to). IMBHs originally …