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most citedSignatures of the Many Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in a Cosmologically Forming Massive Early-Type Galaxy

41 citations · 151 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

RABBITS IV: Stellar feedback and SMBH merging time-scales in the sub-Milky Way mass regime

Ruby J. Wright, Roosa Heiskanen, Shihong Liao +5

Merging supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in low- and intermediate-mass galaxies are important sources for future millihertz gravitational-wave observatories such as LISA. Predictin…

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.GA2026

RABBITS - III. Modelling relativistic accretion discs around spinning black holes in galaxy formation simulations

Dimitrios Irodotou, Shihong Liao, Theodoros Nakas +6

In this third study of the 'Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series we develop and implement a geometrically thin relati…

astro-ph.GA2025

Rapid sinking and efficient mergers of supermassive black holes in compact high-redshift galaxies

Atte Keitaanranta, Peter H. Johansson, Alexander Rawlings +5

We present a cosmological zoom-in simulation targeting the high redshift compact progenitor phase of massive galaxies, with the most massive galaxy reaching a stellar mass of $M_{\…

astro-ph.GA2025

Stellar Cores Live Long and Prosper in Cuspy Dark Matter Halos

Jenni Häkkinen, Alexander Rawlings, Till Sawala +1

The existence of cuspy or cored centers of dark matter halos is a crucial discriminant between different dark matter models. It has recently been claimed based on dynamical argumen…

astro-ph.GA2025

Caught in the act: detections of recoiling supermassive black holes from simulations

Alexander Rawlings, Peter H. Johansson, Thorsten Naab +3

We study the detectability of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses of displaced by gravitational wave recoil kicks $(v_{\rm ki…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

Identifying supermassive black hole recoil in elliptical galaxies

Alexander Rawlings, Atte Keitaanranta, Max Mattero +8

We study stellar core growth in simulations of merging massive () elliptical galaxies by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) displaced by gravitatio…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Apocalypse When? No Certainty of a Milky Way -- Andromeda Collision

Till Sawala, Jehanne Delhomelle, Alis J. Deason +5

It is commonly believed that our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy. As a result of their merger, predicted in around five billion years,…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

The supermassive black hole merger driven evolution of high-redshift red nuggets into present-day cored early-type galaxies

Antti Rantala, Alexander Rawlings, Thorsten Naab +2

Very compact ( kpc) massive quiescent galaxies (red nuggets) are more abundant in the high-redshift Universe (-) than today. Their size evolution…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

RABBITS -- I. The crucial role of nuclear star formation in driving the coalescence of supermassive black hole binaries

Shihong Liao, Dimitrios Irodotou, Peter H. Johansson +5

In this study of the `Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series, we focus on the hardening and coalescing process of super…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

RABBITS -- II. The impact of AGN feedback on coalescing supermassive black holes in disc and elliptical galaxy mergers

Shihong Liao, Dimitrios Irodotou, Peter H. Johansson +5

In this study of the `Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series, we investigate the orbital evolution of supermassive blac…

astro-ph.GA2023

Reviving stochasticity: uncertainty in SMBH binary eccentricity is unavoidable

Alexander Rawlings, Matias Mannerkoski, Peter H. Johansson +1

We study supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary eccentricity of equal-mass galaxy mergers in -body simulations with the KETJU code, which combines the GAGDET-4 fast multipole gra…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 25 cited

KETJU -- resolving small-scale supermassive black hole dynamics in GADGET-4

Matias Mannerkoski, Alexander Rawlings, Peter H. Johansson +5

We present the new public version of the KETJU supermassive black hole (SMBH) dynamics module, as implemented into GADGET-4. KETJU adds a small region around each SMBH where the dy…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 21 cited

Modelling the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole binaries in gas-rich galaxy mergers

Shihong Liao, Peter H. Johansson, Matias Mannerkoski +6

We introduce a new model for the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries to the KETJU code, which enables us to resolve the evolution of SMBH binaries dow…

astro-ph.GA2022

The complex evolution of supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations

Peter H. Johansson, Matias Mannerkoski, Antti Rantala +4

We present here self-consistent zoom-in simulations of massive galaxies forming in a full cosmological setting. The simulations are run with an updated version of the KETJU code, w…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 41 cited

Signatures of the Many Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in a Cosmologically Forming Massive Early-Type Galaxy

Matias Mannerkoski, Peter H. Johansson, Antti Rantala +3

We model here the merger histories of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) population in the late stages of a cosmological simulation of a galaxy grou…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 6 cited

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: rules of behaviour for spin-ellipticity radial tracks in galaxies

Alexander Rawlings, Caroline Foster, Jesse van de Sande +18

We study the behaviour of the spin-ellipticity radial tracks for 507 galaxies from the Sydney AAO Multi-object Integral Field (SAMI) Galaxy Survey with stellar kinematics out to $\…