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Winds Against Alignment: AGN Feedback and the Spin Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries
Francesco Bollati, Marta Volonteri, Alessandro Lupi +2
The interaction between massive black hole (MBH) binaries and circumbinary discs (CBDs) affects the spin orientations of merging binaries - a key observable for the future LISA mis…
An effective model for the tidal disruption of satellites undergoing minor mergers with axisymmetric primaries
Ludovica Varisco, Massimo Dotti, Matteo Bonetti +2
According to the hierarchical formation paradigm, galaxies form through mergers of smaller entities and massive black holes (MBHs), if lurking at their centers, migrate to the nucl…
Repeating partial disruptions and two-body relaxation
Luca Broggi, Nicholas C. Stone, Taeho Ryu +4
Two-body relaxation may drive stars onto near-radial orbits around a massive black hole, resulting in a tidal disruption event (TDE). In some circumstances, stars are unlikely to u…
On the connection between AGN radiative feedback and massive black hole spin
Francesco Bollati, Alessandro Lupi, Massimo Dotti +1
We present a novel implementation for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback through ultra-fast winds in the code gizmo. Our feedback recipe accounts for the angular dependence of…
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 fragility of thin discs in galaxies -- II. Thin discs as tracers of the assembly history of galaxies
Pablo M. Galán-de Anta, Pedro R. Capelo, Eugene Vasiliev +4
Thin galactic discs and nuclear stellar discs (NSDs) are fragile structures that can be easily disturbed by merger events. By studying the age of the stellar populations in present…