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Constraining AGN triggering mechanisms through the clustering analysis of active black holes
M. Gatti, F. Shankar, V. Bouillot +4
The triggering mechanisms for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are still debated. Some of the most popular ones include galaxy interactions (IT) and disk instabilities (DI). Using an a…
An assessment of the "too big to fail" problem for field dwarf galaxies in view of baryonic feedback effects
Emmanouil Papastergis, Francesco Shankar
Recent studies have established that extreme dwarf galaxies --whether satellites or field objects-- suffer from the so called "too big to fail" (TBTF) problem. Put simply, the TBTF…
The massive end of the luminosity and stellar mass functions and clustering from CMASS to SDSS: Evidence for and against passive evolution
M. Bernardi, A. Meert, R. K. Sheth +4
We describe the luminosity function, based on Sersic fits to the light profiles, of CMASS galaxies at z ~ 0.55. Compared to previous estimates, our Sersic-based reductions imply mo…
A catalog of visual-like morphologies in the 5 CANDELS fields using deep-learning
M. Huertas-Company, R. Gravet, G. Cabrera-Vives +12
We present a catalog of visual like H-band morphologies of galaxies () in the 5 CANDELS fields (GOODS-N, GOODS-S, UDS, EGS and COSMOS). Morphologies ar…
Interpreting the possible break in the Black Hole - Bulge mass relation
Fabio Fontanot, Pierluigi Monaco, Francesco Shankar
Recent inspections of local available data suggest that the almost linear relation between the stellar mass of spheroids () and the mass of the super massive Black Hol…
Black Hole and Galaxy Coevolution from Continuity Equation and Abundance Matching
R. Aversa, A. Lapi, G. de Zotti +2
[abridged] We investigate the coevolution of galaxies and hosted supermassive black holes throughout the history of the Universe by a statistical approach based on the continuity e…
The morphologies of massive galaxies from z~3 - Witnessing the 2 channels of bulge growth
Marc Huertas-Company, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Simona Mei +8
[abridged] We quantify the morphological evolution of z~0 massive galaxies () from z~3 in the 5 CANDELS fields. The progenitors are selected using abundance…
Avoiding progenitor bias: The structural and mass evolution of Brightest Group and Cluster Galaxies in Hierarchical models since z~1
Francesco Shankar, Stewart Buchan, Alessandro Rettura +10
The mass and structural evolution of massive galaxies is one of the hottest topics in galaxy formation. This is because it may reveal invaluable insights into the still debated evo…