Publications (30)
Dynamical Friction Modeling of Massive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations and Effects on Merger Rate Predictions
Nianyi Chen, Yueying Ni, Michael Tremmel +4
In this work we establish and test methods for implementing dynamical friction for massive black hole pairs that form in large volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulations which…
On the detectability of massive black hole merger eventsby LISA
Samuel Banks, Katharine Lee, Nazanin Azimi +5
The launch of space based gravitational wave (GW) detectors (e.g. Laser Interferometry Space Antenna; LISA) and current and upcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) will extend the GW…
Resolving Disks & Mergers in Heavily Reddened Quasars and their Companion Galaxies with ALMA
Manda Banerji, Gareth C. Jones, Stefano Carniani +2
We present sub-arcsecond resolution ALMA imaging of the CO(3-2) emission in two heavily reddened quasars (HRQs) - ULASJ1234+0907 and ULASJ2315+0143 - and their companion…
Scaling relations between black holes and their host galaxies: comparing theoretical and observational measurements, and the impact of selection effects
Colin DeGraf, Tiziana Di Matteo, Tommaso Treu +3
We use the high-resolution simulation MassiveBlackII to examine scaling relations between black hole mass (MBH) and host galaxy properties (sigma, M*, and LV), finding good agreeme…
Faint-end Quasar Luminosity Functions from Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations
Colin DeGraf, Tiziana Di Matteo, Volker Springel
We investigate the predictions for the faint-end quasar luminosity function (QLF) and its evolution using fully cosmological hydrodynamic simulations which self-consistently follow…
The MassiveBlack-II Simulation: The Evolution of Halos and Galaxies to z~0
Nishikanta Khandai, Tiziana Di Matteo, Rupert Croft +5
(Abridged for arXiv)We investigate the properties of halos, galaxies and blackholes to z=0 in the high resolution hydrodynamical simulation MassiveBlack-II (MBII) which evolves a L…