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 …

Computational methods for collisional stellar systems

R Spurzem, A Kamlah - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2023 - Springer
Dense star clusters are spectacular self-gravitating stellar systems in our Galaxy and across
the Universe—in many respects. They populate disks and spheroids of galaxies as well as …

The low-end of the black hole mass function at cosmic dawn

A Trinca, R Schneider, R Valiante… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the formation and growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high
redshift represents a major challenge for theoretical models. In this work, we investigate the …

Partial stellar tidal disruption events and their rates

E Bortolas, T Ryu, L Broggi… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) of stars operated by massive black holes (MBHs) will be
detected in thousands by upcoming facilities such as the Vera Rubin Observatory. In this …

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) …

Unveiling early black hole growth with multifrequency gravitational wave observations

R Valiante, M Colpi, R Schneider… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Third-generation ground-based gravitational wave interferometers, like the Einstein
Telescope (ET), Cosmic Explorer, and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), will …

Tidal disruption events in post-starburst galaxies: the importance of a complete stellar mass function

E Bortolas - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a star is destroyed by the strong tidal
shear of a massive black hole (MBH). The accumulation of TDE observations over the last …

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 …

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 …

Optical follow-up of the tick-tock massive black hole binary candidate

M Dotti, M Bonetti, F Rigamonti… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The observation of a population of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) is key for our
complete understanding of galaxy mergers and for the characterization of the expected …