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Mergers of Unequal Mass Galaxies: Supermassive Black Hole Binary Evolution and Structure of Merger Remnants
Fazeel Mahmood Khan, Miguel Preto, Peter Berczik +3
Galaxy centers are residing places for Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs). Galaxy mergers bring SMBHs close together to form gravitationally bound binary systems which, if able to c…
Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Miguel Preto, Ingo Berentzen, Peter Berczik +1
We investigate a purely stellar dynamical solution to the Final Parsec Problem. Galactic nuclei resulting from major mergers are not spherical, but show some degree of triaxiality.…
The impact of realistic models of mass segregation on the event rate of extreme-mass ratio inspirals and cusp re-growth
Pau Amaro-Seoane, Miguel Preto
One of the most interesting sources of gravitational waves (GWs) for LISA is the inspiral of compact objects on to a massive black hole (MBH), commonly referred to as an "extreme-m…
Gravitational Waves Notes, Issue #3 : "Stellar cusps in galactic nuclei - How stars distribute around a massive black hole"
Pau Amaro-Seoane, Bernard Schutz, Miguel Preto
GW Notes was born from the need for a journal where the distinct communities involved in gravitation wave research might gather. While these three communities - Astrophysics, Gener…
On strong mass segregation around a massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Miguel Preto, Pau Amaro-Seoane
We present, for the first time, a clear -body realization of the {\it strong mass segregation} solution for the stellar distribution around a massive black hole. We compare our…
On post-Newtonian orbits and the Galactic-center stars
Miguel Preto, Prasenjit Saha
Stars near the Galactic center reach a few percent of light speed during pericenter passage, which makes post-Newtonian effects potentially detectable. We formulate the orbit equat…