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astro-ph2008★ 4 cited
Formation of Nuclear Disks and Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Multi-Scale Hydrodynamical Galaxy Mergers
Lucio Mayer, Stelios Kazantzidis, Andres Escala
(Abridged) We review the results of the first multi-scale, hydrodynamical simulations of mergers between galaxies with central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to investigate the f…
astro-ph2007★ 6 cited
Biases in the Gravitational Lens Population Induced by Halo and Galaxy Triaxiality
Eduardo Rozo, Jacqueline Chen, Andrew R. Zentner
The lensing cross section of triaxial halos depends on the relative orientation between a halo's principal axes and its line of sight. Consequently, a lensing subsample of randomly…