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Growing massive black holes through super-critical accretion of stellar-mass seeds
A. Lupi, F. Haardt, M. Dotti +3
The rapid assembly of the massive black holes that power the luminous quasars observed at remains a puzzle. Various direct collapse models have been proposed to head-s…
Massive black holes in merging galaxies
Marta Volonteri, Tamara Bogdanovic, Massimo Dotti +1
The dynamics of massive black holes (BHs) in galaxy mergers is a rich field of research that has seen much progress in recent years. In this contribution we briefly review the proc…
Bar-formation as driver of gas inflows in isolated disc galaxies
R. Fanali, M. Dotti, D. Fiacconi +1
Stellar bars are a common feature in massive disc galaxies. On a theoretical ground, the response of gas to a bar is generally thought to cause nuclear starbursts and, possibly, AG…
Massive black hole and gas dynamics in mergers of galaxy nuclei - II. Black hole sinking in star-forming nuclear discs
Alessandro Lupi, Francesco Haardt, Massimo Dotti +1
Mergers of gas-rich galaxies are key events in the hierarchical built-up of cosmic structures, and can lead to the formation of massive black hole binaries. By means of high-resolu…
Overlapping inflows as catalysts of AGN activity - II: Relative importance of turbulence and inflow-disc interaction
Juan Manuel Carmona-Loaiza, Monica Colpi, Massimo Dotti +1
The main challenge for understanding the fuelling of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei is not to account for the source of fuel, but rather to explain its delivery…
On the fragility of nuclear stellar discs against galaxy mergers: surviving photometric and kinematic signatures of nuclear discs
M. Sarzi, H. R. Ledo, M. Dotti
Nuclear stellar discs (NSDs) can help to constrain the assembly history of their host galaxies, as long as we can assume them to be fragile structures that are disrupted during mer…