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20182026
most citedThe hierarchical assembly of galaxies and black holes in the first billion years: predictions for the era of gravitational wave astronomy

115 citations · 153 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

BlackHoleWeather -- Jet-regulated chaotic cold accretion across the meso scale: Variability and kinematics

Vieri Cammelli, Massimo Gaspari, Filippo Barbani +10

Chaotic cold accretion (CCA) predicts that supermassive black holes are fed by multiphase clouds condensing from turbulent hot atmospheres. In jet-regulated systems cold gas must a…

astro-ph.GA2026

BlackHoleWeather -- Spin-coupled chaotic cold accretion across the meso scale: Variability and kinematics

Olmo Piana, Massimo Gaspari, Vieri Cammelli +10

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) spin records the vector history of accretion. In chaotic cold accretion (CCA), this history is set by clouds and filaments whose torques can add cohe…

astro-ph.GA2026

BlackHoleWeather -- Chaotic cold accretion across the meso-scale: Morphology and thermodynamics

Filippo Barbani, Massimo Gaspari, Vieri Cammelli +12

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) self-regulate galaxies, groups, and clusters, yet the pathway transporting gas from halo scales to sub-pc radii remains debated. In hot stratified…

astro-ph.GA2026

BlackHoleWeather -- Chaotic cold accretion across the meso-scale: Variability and kinematics

Filippo Barbani, Massimo Gaspari, Olmo Piana +12

Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in realistic halos is time-variable, governed by turbulence, cooling, and multiphase condensation. In chaotic cold accretion (CCA),…

astro-ph.GA2026

BlackHoleWeather -- Jet-regulated chaotic cold accretion across the meso scale: Morphology and thermodynamics

Vieri Cammelli, Massimo Gaspari, Olmo Piana +11

How mechanical AGN feedback couples to multiphase condensation across scales remains a problem in galaxy groups and clusters. It is unclear how jets reshape the chaotic cold accret…

astro-ph.GA2026

BlackHoleWeather -- Spin-coupled chaotic cold accretion across the meso-scale: Morphology and thermodynamics

Olmo Piana, Massimo Gaspari, Filippo Barbani +10

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) spin is a key but poorly constrained ingredient of the feeding-feedback loop. Chaotic cold accretion (CCA) of cold gas clouds delivers rapidly varyin…

astro-ph.GA2025

The effect of extended radio emission on SMBH accretion rate estimates

Stergios Amarantidis, Duncan Farrah, Nick Seymour +5

Accretion rates in radio galaxies are typically estimated from optical and total radio flux measurements, incorporating emission from the core, jets, and lobes. These estimates can…

astro-ph.HE2025

Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays from Active Galactic Nuclei Jets: The Role of Supermassive Black Hole Growth and Accretion States

Olmo Piana, Hung-Yi Pu

Jets emanating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent some of the most formidable particle accelerators in the universe, thereby emerging as viable candidates responsible for…

astro-ph.GA2024

Super-Eddington accretion in high-redshift black holes and the emergence of jetted AGN

Olmo Piana, Hung-Yi Pu, Kinwah Wu

In this work we study the co-evolution of central black holes (BHs) and host galaxies by utilizing an advanced iteration of the DELPHI semi-analytical model of galaxy formation and…

astro-ph.GA2021

The impact of black hole feedback on the UV luminosity and stellar mass assembly of high-redshift galaxies

Olmo Piana, Pratika Dayal, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We employ the Delphi semi-analytical model to study the impact of black hole growth on high-redshift galaxies, both in terms of the observed UV luminosity and of the star formation…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 38 cited

The mass assembly of high-redshift black holes

Olmo Piana, Pratika Dayal, Marta Volonteri +1

We use the Delphi semi-analytic model to study the mass assembly and properties of high-redshift () black holes over a wide mass range, . Our…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 115 cited

The hierarchical assembly of galaxies and black holes in the first billion years: predictions for the era of gravitational wave astronomy

Pratika Dayal, Elena M. Rossi, Banafsheh Shiralilou +3

In this work we include black hole (BH) seeding, growth and feedback into our semi-analytic galaxy formation model, Delphi. Our model now fully tracks the, accretion- and merger-dr…