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The cosmic merger rate of stellar black hole binaries from the Illustris simulation
Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, Emanuele Ripamonti +1
The cosmic merger rate density of black hole binaries (BHBs) can give us an essential clue to constraining the formation channels of BHBs, in light of current and forthcoming gravi…
Signatures of planets and protoplanets in the Galactic center: a clue to understand the G2 cloud?
Michela Mapelli, Emanuele Ripamonti
Several hundred young stars lie in the innermost parsec of our Galaxy. The super-massive black hole (SMBH) might capture planets orbiting these stars, and bring them onto nearly ra…
The merger fraction of active and inactive galaxies in the local Universe through an improved non-parametric classification
Stefano Cotini, Emanuele Ripamonti, Alessandro Caccianiga +5
We investigate the possible link between mergers and the enhanced activity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centre of galaxies, by comparing the merger fraction of a loca…