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GA-NIFS: sRMS, a new method for disentangling resolved and unresolved emission in integral field spectroscopy. Application to distant quasars
Michele Perna, Santiago Arribas, Carlota Prieto-Jiménez +28
The interpretation of AGN emission-line profiles in type1 AGN is often complicated by the dominance of bright, spatially unresolved nuclear continuum and broad-line region (BLR) em…
Black hole merger rates for LISA and LGWA from semi-analytical modelling of light seeds
Jasbir Singh, Paola Severgnini, Vieri Cammelli +10
With the upcoming space- and Moon-based gravitational-wave detectors, LISA and LGWA respectively, a new era of GW astronomy will begin with the possibility of detections of the mer…
Identification of periodicities with arbitrary shapes in AGN light curves
Lorenzo Bertassi, Maria Charisi, Riccardo Buscicchio +3
Massive black hole binaries are expected to be observable as periodic AGN in time-domain photometric surveys. Periodicities may originate from different physical processes, includi…
VSTPOL: making the VST a large survey telescope for optical polarimetry
P. Schipani, S. Covino, F. Snik +30
Since the start of operations in 2011, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) has been one of the most efficient wide-field imagers in the optical bands. However, in the next years the Ver…
Variability in the supermassive black hole binary candidate SDSS J2320+0024: No evidence of periodic modulation
Fabio Rigamonti, Lorenzo Bertassi, Riccardo Buscicchio +5
Supermassive black hole binaries (SBHBs) are a natural outcome of galaxy mergers, and they are expected to be among the loudest gravitational-wave sources at low frequencies. The s…
Can a time evolving, asymmetric broad line region mimic a massive black hole binary?
Erika Sottocorno, Mary Ogborn, Lorenzo Bertassi +3
Gas within the influence sphere of accreting massive black holes is responsible for the emission of the broad lines observed in optical-UV spectra of unobscured active galactic nuc…
ESPRESSO reveals a single but perturbed broad-line region in the supermassive black hole binary candidate PG 1302-102
Fabio Rigamonti, Paola Severgnini, Erika Sottocorno +12
We present a new, Bayesian analysis of the highest-resolution optical spectrum of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary candidate PG 1302-102, obtained with ESPRESSO@VLT (R \si…
Testing compact massive black hole binary candidates through multi-epoch spectroscopy
Lorenzo Bertassi, Erika Sottocorno, Fabio Rigamonti +4
Emission from two massive black holes (MBHs) bound in a close binary is expected to be modulated by different processes, such as the Doppler boost due to the orbital motion, accret…
BANG-MaNGA: A census of kinematic discs and bulges across mass and star formation in the local Universe
Fabio Rigamonti, Luca Cortese, Francesco Bollati +4
We investigate the relevance of kinematically identified bulges, discs and their role relative to galaxy quenching. We utilize an analysis of the SDSS-MaNGA survey conducted with t…
A fast test for the identification and confirmation of massive black hole binaries
Massimo Dotti, Fabio Rigamonti, Stefano Rinaldi +3
We present a new observational test to identify massive black hole binaries in large multi-epoch spectroscopical catalogues and to probe the real nature of already proposed binary…
The GAPS programme at TNG. XLV. HI Balmer lines transmission spectroscopy and NLTE atmospheric modelling of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b
L. Fossati, F. Biassoni, G. M. Cappello +27
We aim at extracting the transmission spectrum of the HI Balmer lines of the ultra-hot Jupiter (UHJ) KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b from observations and to further compare the results with w…
Decomposing galaxies with BANG: an automated morpho-kinematical decomposition of the SDSS-DR17 MaNGA survey
Fabio Rigamonti, Massimo Dotti, Stefano Covino +4
From a purely photometric perspective galaxies are generally decomposed into a bulge+disc system, with bulges being dispersion-dominated and discs rotationally-supported. However,…
Maximally informed Bayesian modelling of disc galaxies
Fabio Rigamonti, Massimo Dotti, Stefano Covino +5
Dissecting the underlying structure of galaxies is of main importance in the framework of galaxy formation and evolution theories. While a classical bulge+disc decomposition of dis…
Optical follow-up of the tick-tock massive black hole binary candidate
Massimo Dotti, Matteo Bonetti, Fabio Rigamonti +8
The observation of a population of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) is key for our complete understanding of galaxy mergers and for the characterization of the expected gravitat…