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most citedIntermediate Mass Black Hole Formation in compact Young Massive Star Clusters

108 citations · 305 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

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

Growth of Seed Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei

Rainer Spurzem, Francesco Rizzuto, Manuel Arca Sedda +5

The evolution of dense star clusters is followed by direct high-accuracy N-body simulation. The problem is to first order a gravitational N-body problem, but stars evolve due to as…

astro-ph.HE2023

The Dragon-II simulations -- III. Compact binary mergers in clusters with up to 1 million stars: mass, spin, eccentricity, merger rate and pair instability supernovae rate

Manuel Arca Sedda, Albrecht W. H. Kamlah, Rainer Spurzem +4

Compact binary mergers forming in star clusters may exhibit distinctive features that can be used to identify them among observed gravitational-wave (GW) sources. Such features lik…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Dragon-II simulations -- II. Formation mechanisms, mass, and spin of intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters with up to 1 million stars

Manuel Arca Sedda, Albrecht W. H. Kamlah, Rainer Spurzem +4

The processes that govern the formation of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in dense stellar clusters are still unclear. Here, we discuss the role of stellar mergers, star-BH…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 38 cited

The growth of intermediate mass black holes through tidal captures and tidal disruption events

Francesco Paolo Rizzuto, Thorsten Naab, Antti Rantala +5

We present simulations, including post-Newtonian dynamics, of dense clusters of low-mass stars harbouring central black holes (BHs) with initial masses of 50, 30…

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.IM2022★ 24 cited

BIFROST: simulating compact subsystems in star clusters using a hierarchical fourth-order forward symplectic integrator code

Antti Rantala, Thorsten Naab, Francesco Paolo Rizzuto +3

We present BIFROST, an extended version of the GPU-accelerated hierarchical fourth-order forward symplectic integrator code FROST. BIFROST (BInaries in FROST) can efficiently evolv…

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★ 25 cited

The two phases of core formation -- orbital evolution in the centres of ellipticals with supermassive black hole binaries

Matteo Frigo, Thorsten Naab, Antti Rantala +4

The flat stellar density cores of massive elliptical galaxies form rapidly due to sinking supermassive black holes (SMBH) in gas-poor galaxy mergers. After the SMBHs form a bound b…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 62 cited

Black hole mergers in compact star clusters and massive black hole formation beyond the mass-gap

Francesco Paolo Rizzuto, Thorsten Naab, Rainer Spurzem +4

We present direct N-body simulations, carried out with Nbody6++GPU, of young and compact low metallicity star clusters with stars, a velocity dispersion of …

astro-ph.GA2020★ 108 cited

Intermediate Mass Black Hole Formation in compact Young Massive Star Clusters

Francesco Paolo Rizzuto, Thorsten Naab, Rainer Spurzem +6

Young dense massive star clusters are a promising environment for the formation of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) through collisions. We present a set of 80 simulations carr…