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20192025
most citedBlack hole scaling relations of active and quiescent galaxies: Addressing selection effects and constraining virial factors

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astro-ph.GA2025

Probing the co-evolution of SMBHs and their hosts from scaling relations pairwise residuals: dominance of stellar velocity dispersion and host halo mass

Francesco Shankar, Mariangela Bernardi, Daniel Roberts +17

The correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies still defy our understanding from both the observational and theoretical perspectives. Here we per…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

An Eddington ratio-driven origin for the relation in quiescent and star forming active galaxies

Rosamaria Carraro, Francesco Shankar, Viola Allevato +5

A mild correlation exists in active galaxies between the mean black hole accretion, as traced by the mean X-ray luminosity , and the host galaxy stell…

astro-ph.GA2020

Using Unreal Engine to Visualize a Cosmological Volume

Christopher Marsden, Francesco Shankar

In this work we present `Astera', a cosmological visualization tool that renders a mock universe in real time using Unreal Engine 4. The large scale structure of the cosmic web is…

astro-ph.GA2020

The case for the fundamental - relation

Christopher Marsden, Francesco Shankar, Michele Ginolfi +1

Strong scaling relations between host galaxy properties (such as stellar mass, bulge mass, luminosity, effective radius etc) and their nuclear supermassive black hole's mass point…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 46 cited

Probing black hole accretion tracks, scaling relations and radiative efficiencies from stacked X-ray active galactic nuclei

Francesco Shankar, David H. Weinberg, Christopher Marsden +25

The masses of supermassive black holes at the centres of local galaxies appear to be tightly correlated with the mass and velocity dispersions of their galactic hosts. However, the…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 3 cited

Constraining black hole-galaxy scaling relations from the large-scale clustering of Active Galactic Nuclei and implied mean radiative efficiency

Francesco Shankar, Viola Allevato, Mariangela Bernardi +11

A supermassive black hole has been found at the centre of nearly every galaxy observed with sufficient sensitivity. The masses of these black holes are observed to increase with ei…