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Early reionization by miniquasars
Piero Madau, Martin J. Rees, Marta Volonteri +2
Motivated by the recent detection by WMAP of a large optical depth to Thomson scattering -- implying a very early reionization epoch -- we assess a scenario where the universe was…
astro-ph2003
The formation of galaxy stellar cores by the hierarchical merging of supermassive black holes
Marta Volonteri, Piero Madau, Francesco Haardt
We investigate a hierarchical structure formation scenario in which galaxy stellar cores are created from the binding energy liberated by shrinking supermassive black hole (SMBH) b…