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Wandering intermediate-mass black holes in Milky Way-mass galaxies in cosmological simulations: myth or reality?
Floor van Donkelaar, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo +1
In this work, we address the following question: ``can we use the current cosmological simulations to identify intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) and quantify a putative populat…
Stellar cluster formation in a Milky Way-sized galaxy at z>4 -- II. A hybrid formation scenario for the nuclear star cluster and its connection to the nuclear stellar ring
Floor van Donkelaar, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo +3
Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive star clusters found in the innermost region of most galaxies. While recent studies suggest that low-mass NSCs in dwarf galaxies form largel…
Stellar cluster formation in a Milky Way-sized galaxy at z>4 -- I. The proto-globular cluster population and the imposter amongst us
Floor van Donkelaar, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo +3
The formation history of globular clusters (GCs) at redshift remains an unsolved problem. In this work, we use the cosmological, -body hydrodynamical ``zoom-in'' simulat…
Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
Pau Amaro Seoane, Jeff Andrews, Manuel Arca Sedda +156
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address many…
The Dawn of Disk Formation in a Milky Way-sized Galaxy Halo: Thin Stellar Disks at
Tomas Tamfal, Lucio Mayer, Thomas R. Quinn +5
We present results from \textsc{GigaEris}, a cosmological, -body hydrodynamical "zoom-in" simulation of the formation of a Milky Way-sized galaxy halo with unprecedented resolut…
Revisiting dynamical friction: the role of global modes and local wakes
Tomas Tamfal, Lucio Mayer, Thomas R. Quinn +4
The orbital decay of a perturber within a larger system plays a key role in the dynamics of many astrophysical systems -- from nuclear star clusters or globular clusters in galaxie…
The lifetime of binary black holes in Sérsic galaxy models
Nadia Biava, Monica Colpi, Pedro R. Capelo +5
In the local universe, black holes of M are hosted in galaxies displaying a variety of stellar profiles and morphologies. These black holes are the anticipated…
Formation of LISA Black Hole Binaries in Merging Dwarf Galaxies: the Imprint of Dark Matter
Tomas Tamfal, Pedro R. Capelo, Stelios Kazantzidis +4
Theoretical models for the expected merger rates of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are vital for planned gravitational-wave detection experiments such as the Laser Interfero…
Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap
Leor Barack, Vitor Cardoso, Samaya Nissanke +203
The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics---dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem-…
A sub-grid model for the growth of dust particles in hydrodynamical simulations of protoplanetary disks
Tomas Tamfal, Joanna Drazkowska, Lucio Mayer +1
We present the first 2D hydrodynamical finite volume simulations in which dust is fully coupled with the gas, including its back-reaction onto it, and at the same time the dust siz…