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20162026
most citedThe ASTRID simulation: the evolution of Supermassive Black Holes

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64 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Matter Clustering in Astrid: Reduced Baryonic Suppression from Realistic Black Hole Dynamics

Yanhui Yang, Simeon Bird, Yihao Zhou +4

Baryonic feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is often invoked as a major source of suppression in the matter power spectrum, with implications for precision cosmology and th…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2025

Connecting current and future dual AGN searches to LISA and PTA gravitational wave detections

Nianyi Chen, Yihao Zhou, Ekaterine Dadiani +10

Dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) mark an observable stage of massive black hole (MBH) pairing in galaxy mergers and are precursors to the MBH binaries that generate low-frequency…

astro-ph.GA2025

From ASTRID to BRAHMA -- The role of overmassive black holes in little red dots in cosmological simulations

Patrick LaChance, Aklant Kumar Bhowmick, Rupert A. C. Croft +8

We leverage the overmassive black holes () present in a realization of the BRAHMA cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to investigate their ro…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The ASTRID Simulation at z=0: From Massive Black Holes to Large-scale Structure

Yihao Zhou, Tiziana Di Matteo, Simeon Bird +7

We present the results for the cosmological simulation ASTRID. Hosting 0.33 trillion particles in a box of per side, ASTRID is one o…

astro-ph.CO2025

An AI super-resolution field emulator for cosmological hydrodynamics: the Lyman-α forest

Fatemeh Hafezianzadeh, Xiaowen Zhang, Yueying Ni +4

We extend our super-resolution and emulation framework for cosmological dark matter simulations to include hydrodynamics. We present a two-stage deep learning model to emulate high…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Quantifying biases in stellar masses of JWST high-z quasar host galaxies caused by quasar subtraction

Sabrina Berger, Madeline A. Marshall, J. Stuart B. Wyithe +4

JWST has enabled dozens of high- quasar host galaxy detections. Many of these observations imply galaxies with black holes that are overmassive compared to their low- counter…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The Properties of Little Red Dot Galaxies in the ASTRID Simulation

Patrick LaChance, Rupert A. C. Croft, Tiziana Di Matteo +5

We present simulated counterparts of the ``Little Red Dot'' (LRD) galaxies observed with JWST, using the large cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, ASTRID. We create mock observat…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Large-scale surveys of the quasar proximity effect

Rupert A. C. Croft, Patrick Shaw, Ann-Marsha Alexis +6

The UV radiation from high redshift quasars causes a local deficit in the neutral hydrogen absorption (Lyman-alpha forest) in their spectra, known as the proximity effect. Measurem…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Gravitational Waves from Massive Black Hole Mergers in ASTRID: Predictions for LISA

Bonny Y. Wang, Yihao Zhou, William Chen +5

We use the ASTRID cosmological simulation to forecast massive black hole (MBH) mergers detectable by Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) down to . ASTRID directly models…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Gravitational Wave Background from Massive Black Holes in the ASTRID Simulation

Nianyi Chen, Tiziana Di Matteo, Yihao Zhou +6

Recent pulsar timing array (PTA) observations have detected nanohertz gravitational waves, likely originating from massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). The detected amplitude is un…

astro-ph.GA2025

Central Cluster Galaxies: A Hotspot for Detectable Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers

Yihao Zhou, Tiziana Di Matteo, Nianyi Chen +6

After Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have announced the evidence for a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB), the continuous waves (CWs) are the next anticipated gravitati…

astro-ph.CO2024

Large-scale dual AGN in large-scale cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Clara Puerto-Sánchez, Melanie Habouzit, Marta Volonteri +10

Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) in observations and understanding theoretically which massive black holes (MBHs) compose them and in which galactic and large-scale env…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The redshift evolution of the scaling relation: new insights from cosmological simulations and semi-analytic models

Shashank Dattathri, Priyamvada Natarajan, Antonio J. Porras-Valverde +4

We study the co-evolution of black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies in the ASTRID and Illustris-TNG300 cosmological simulations and the Dark Sage Semi-Analytic Model (SAM), focu…

astro-ph.GA2024

MAGICS II. Seed black holes stripped of their surrounding stars do not sink

Yihao Zhou, Diptajyoti Mukherjee, Nianyi Chen +7

MBH seed mergers are expected to be among the loudest sources of gravitational waves detected by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), providing a unique window into the b…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Astrid Simulation: Evolution of black holes and galaxies to z=0.5 and different evolution pathways for galaxy quenching

Yueying Ni, Nianyi Chen, Yihao Zhou +5

We present new results from the ASTRID simulation from to , covering the epoch of cosmic noon. The galaxy stellar mass function, as well as the black hole mass and lum…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

AI-assisted super-resolution cosmological simulations IV: An emulator for deterministic realizations

Xiaowen Zhang, Patrick Lachance, Ankita Dasgupta +5

Super-resolution (SR) models in cosmological simulations use deep learning (DL) to rapidly enhance low-resolution (LR) runs with statistically correct fine details. These models pr…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

The evolution of galaxy morphology from redshift z=6 to 3: Mock JWST observations of galaxies in the ASTRID simulation

Patrick LaChance, Rupert Croft, Yueying Ni +3

We present mock JWST observations for more than 250,000 different galaxies from the Astrid simulation with . The mock observations are made using the BPASS stellar…

astro-ph.GA2024

Simulated host galaxy analogs of high-z quasars observed with JWST

Sabrina Berger, Madeline A. Marshall, J. Stuart B. Wyithe +3

The hosts of two low-luminosity high-z quasars, J2255+0251 and J2236+0032, were recently detected using JWST's NIRCam instrument. These represent the first high-z quasar host galax…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

z~2 dual AGN host galaxies are disky: stellar kinematics in the ASTRID Simulation

Ekaterine Dadiani, Tiziana Di Matteo, Nianyi Chen +6

We study dual AGN host galaxy morphologies at using the ASTRID simulation, selecting black hole (BH) pairs with small separation (), high mass ($M_{\text{BH,12…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

MAGICS I. The First Few Orbits Encode the Fate of Seed Massive Black Hole Pairs

Nianyi Chen, Diptajyoti Mukherjee, Tiziana Di Matteo +3

The elusive massive black hole (MBH) seeds stand to be revealed by the Laser Space Antenna Interferometer through mergers. As an aftermath of galaxy mergers, MBH coalescence is a v…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Modeling Quasar Proximity Zones in a Realistic Cosmological Environment with a Self-consistent Light Curve

Yihao Zhou, Huanqing Chen, Tiziana Di Matteo +3

We study quasar proximity zones in a simulation that includes a self-consistent quasar formation model and realistic IGM environments. The quasar host halo is $10^{13}\ M_{\mathrm{…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Cosmological baryon spread and impact on matter clustering in CAMELS

Matthew Gebhardt, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, Josh Borrow +9

We quantify the cosmological spread of baryons relative to their initial neighboring dark matter distribution using thousands of state-of-the-art simulations from the Cosmology and…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 1 cited

Fly-by galaxy encounters with multiple black holes produce star-forming linear wakes

Nianyi Chen, Patrick LaChance, Yueying Ni +4

We look for simulated star-forming linear wakes such as the one recently discovered by van Dokkum et al. (2023) in the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation ASTRID. Amongst the ru…