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Tidal stirring of Milky Way satellites: a simple picture with the integrated tidal force
Ewa L. Lokas, Stelios Kazantzidis, Lucio Mayer +1
Most of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Local Group were probably formed via environmental processes like the tidal interaction with the Milky Way. We study this process via N-bod…
On the Efficiency of the Tidal Stirring Mechanism for the Origin of Dwarf Spheroidals: Dependence on the Orbital and Structural Parameters of the Progenitor Disky Dwarfs
Stelios Kazantzidis, Ewa L. Lokas, Simone Callegari +2
(Abridged) The tidal stirring model posits the formation of dSph galaxies via the tidal interactions between rotationally-supported dwarfs and MW-sized host galaxies. Using a set o…
Recoiling Massive Black Holes in Gas-Rich Galaxy Mergers
Javiera Guedes, Piero Madau, Lucio Mayer +1
The asymmetric emission of gravitational waves produced during the coalescence of a massive black hole (MBH) binary imparts a velocity "kick" to the system that can displace the ho…
Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies
S. Callegari, S. Kazantzidis, L. Mayer +4
We perform a suite of high-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations to investigate the orbital decay and mass evolution of massive black hole (MBH) pairs down to scal…