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Cosmic Duets II. Growth and accretion in Gaia Multi-Peak dual AGN at Cosmic Noon
M. Scialpi, F. Mannucci, D. Izquierdo-Villalba +36
We present the first statistical characterization of the physical properties of Cosmic Duets: dual AGN in the redshift range 0.5 z 3.0 with projected separations of 1…
The LISA Astrophysics MBHcatalogues Project: A comparison of predictions of simulated massive black hole binaries
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Melanie Habouzit, Matteo Bonetti +67
In the hierarchical paradigm of galaxy formation, central massive black holes (MBHs) are expected to coalesce after the merger of their host galaxies. One of the main goals of the…
Overmassive and Undermassive Massive Black Holes: The Role of Environment and Gravitational-Wave Recoils
David Izquierdo-Villalba
Understanding the connection between galaxy properties and their central massive black holes (MBHs) is key to unveiling their co-evolution. We use the ${\tt L{-}Galaxies{-} \it BH}…
Bright siren without electromagnetic counterpart by LISA-Taiji-TianQin network
Yejing Zhan, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Xiao Guo +3
Gravitational waves (GWs) with electromagnetic counterparts (EMc) offer a novel approach to measure the Hubble constant (), known as bright sirens, enabling measurements…
Constraints on the early growth of massive black holes from PTA and JWST with L-GalaxiesBH
Silvia Bonoli, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Daniele Spinoso +4
Recent Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) results provided strong evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (sGWB), consistent with a population of merging massive black hol…
Off-center black hole seed formation? Implications for high and low redshift massive black holes
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Daniele Spinoso, Marta Volonteri +3
Recent studies show that light seeds of black holes, which grow into massive black holes (MBHs) over time, often struggle to remain at the centers of their birthplaces in high-reds…
Identifying massive black hole binaries via light curve variability in optical time-domain surveys
Alfredo Chiesa, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Alberto Sesana +5
Accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) often display periodic variations in their emitted radiation, providing a distinctive signature for their identification. In this work…
Dissecting the nanohertz gravitational wave sky: Frequency-correlated anisotropy induced by eccentric supermassive black hole binaries
Beatrice Eleonora Moreschi, Serena Valtolina, Alberto Sesana +5
Revealing the nature of the nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) signal recently reported by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations around the world is the next goal of low-frequenc…
Massive Star Clusters in the Semi-Analytical Galaxy Formation Model L-Galaxies 2020
Nils Hoyer, Silvia Bonoli, Nate Bastian +7
It is established that there exists a direct link between the formation history of star cluster populations and their host galaxies. However, our lack of understanding of the assem…
Lighting up the nano-hertz gravitational wave sky: opportunities and challenges of multimessenger astronomy with PTA experiments
Riccardo J. Truant, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Alberto Sesana +4
Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have the potential to unveil continuous gravitational wave (CGW) signals from individual massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). Detecting them i…
Searches for signatures of ultra-light axion dark matter in polarimetry data of the European Pulsar Timing Array
N. K. Porayko, P. Usynina, J. Terol-Calvo +74
Ultra-light axion-like particles (ALPs) can be a viable solution to the dark matter problem. The scalar field associated with ALPs, coupled to the electromagnetic field, acts as an…
Stars or gas? Constraining the hardening processes of massive black-hole binaries with LISA
Alice Spadaro, Riccardo Buscicchio, David Izquierdo-Villalba +3
Massive black-hole binaries will be the loudest sources detectable by LISA. These systems are predicted to form during the hierarchical assembly of cosmic structures and coalesce b…
Resolving the nano-Hz gravitational wave sky: the detectability of eccentric binaries with PTA experiments
Riccardo J. Truant, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Alberto Sesana +2
Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations reported evidence of a nano-Hz stochastic gravitational wave background (sGWB) compatible with an adiabatically inspiraling population of m…
High-definition imaging of a filamentary connection between a close quasar pair at z=3
Davide Tornotti, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati +16
Filaments connecting halos are a long-standing prediction of cold dark matter theories. We present a detection of the cosmic web emission connecting two quasar-host galaxies at red…
A link to the past: characterizing wandering black holes in Milky Way-type galaxies
Julen Untzaga, Silvia Bonoli, David Izquierdo-Villalba +2
A population of non-stellar black holes (100 M) has been long predicted to wander the Milky Way. We aim to characterize this population by using the L-Galaxies s…
The rise and fall of bars in disc galaxies from to . The role of the environment
Yetli Rosas-Guevara, Silvia Bonoli, Carmen Misa Moreira +1
We investigate the influence of the environment on the evolution of barred and unbarred disc galaxies with a mass $>10^{10}\Msun$ from z=1 down to z=0, employing the TNG50 magnetic…
Connecting low-redshift LISA massive black hole mergers to the nHz stochastic gravitational wave background
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Alberto Sesana, Monica Colpi +4
Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments worldwide recently reported evidence of a nHz stochastic gravitational wave background (sGWB) compatible with the existence of slowly inspiral…
Demographics of Tidal Disruption Events with L-Galaxies: I. Volumetric TDE rates and the abundance of Nuclear Star Clusters
M. Polkas, S. Bonoli, E. Bortolas +5
Stars can be ripped apart by tidal forces in the vicinity of a massive black hole (MBH), causing luminous flares known as tidal disruption events (TDEs). These events could be cont…
Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Alessandro Lupi, John Regan +2
Massive black holes are key inhabitants of the nuclei of galaxies. Moreover, their astrophysical relevance has gained significant traction in recent years, thanks especially to the…
Comparing recent PTA results on the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background
The International Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration, G. Agazie, J. Antoniadis +242
The Australian, Chinese, European, Indian, and North American pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently reported, at varying levels, evidence for the presence of a nanohert…
The miniJPAS & J-NEP surveys: Identification and characterization of the Ly Emitter population and the Ly Luminosity Function
Alberto Torralba-Torregrosa, Siddhartha Gurung-López, Pablo Arnalte-Mur +27
We present the Lyman- (Lya) Luminosity Function (LF) at , estimated from a sample of 67 Lya-emitter (LAE) candidates in the J-PAS Pathfinder surveys: miniJPAS and J…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array I. The dataset and timing analysis
J. Antoniadis, S. Babak, A. -S. Bak Nielsen +66
Pulsar timing arrays offer a probe of the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum (1 - 100 nanohertz), which is intimately connected to a number of markers that can uniquely trac…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array III. Search for gravitational wave signals
J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +95
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European Pulsar T…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: VI. Challenging the ultralight dark matter paradigm
Clemente Smarra, Boris Goncharov, Enrico Barausse +68
Pulsar Timing Array experiments probe the presence of possible scalar or pseudoscalar ultralight dark matter particles through decade-long timing of an ensemble of galactic millise…