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Recycled Gas Dominates the Metal-rich Fuel of Supermassive Black Holes
Dongyun Kwak, Ena Choi, Hannah Jhee +5
Understanding the origin and chemical properties of gas accreted by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is essential for linking black hole growth to galaxy evolution. Using a suite o…
Simulating winds in the Galactic centre: I. Supernova-driven multiphase outflows and HI cloud acceleration
Nicolas Peschken, Enrico M. Di Teodoro, Michał Hanasz +5
The centre of the Milky Way (MW) hosts powerful multiphase outflows, as evidenced by the Fermi and eROSITA bubbles, and by cold atomic hydrogen (HI) gas clouds detected up to a few…
Supermassive black holes in six triaxial galaxies: Insights from SINFONI and MUSE observations
Sabine Thater, Avinash Chaturvedi, Davor Krajnovic +5
Dynamical modelling can be used to constrain the masses of central black holes; however, modelling massive galaxies is challenging due to their complexity. In this work, we report…
NOEMA3D: Resolving radial gas flows in disk galaxies at z~1.1-1.6 with high-resolution CO observations
Jean-Baptiste Jolly, Linda J. Tacconi, Reinhard Genzel +34
We present NOEMA3D, a unique high-resolution study of purely molecular gas kinematics at to 1.6, providing a dedicated view of cold gas dynamics at the late stages of…
NOEMA3D: Extended CO, [C I] and dust in massive star-forming main-sequence galaxies at cosmic noon
Jianhang Chen, Linda J. Tacconi, Reinhard Genzel +34
We present a spatially resolved study of cold molecular gas and dust in ten main-sequence galaxies at z=1.1-1.6, using observations of CO(4-3), CO(3-2), [CI](1-0), and dust continu…
Tracing the AGN-Merger Connection: insights from cosmological simulations and JWST mock observations
Hannah Jhee, Ena Choi, Rachel S. Somerville +6
Galaxy mergers have long been proposed as a mechanism for funneling gas toward galactic centres, potentially triggering accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and igniting…
FROST-CLUSTERS -- III. Metallicity-dependent intermediate mass black hole formation by runaway collisions in dense star clusters
Antti Rantala, Thorsten Naab, Natalia Lahén +4
We explore the formation of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs), potential seeds for supermassive black holes (SMBHs), via runaway stellar collisions for a wide range of star clu…
Rapid sinking and efficient mergers of supermassive black holes in compact high-redshift galaxies
Atte Keitaanranta, Peter H. Johansson, Alexander Rawlings +5
We present a cosmological zoom-in simulation targeting the high redshift compact progenitor phase of massive galaxies, with the most massive galaxy reaching a stellar mass of $M_{\…
Elusive Plunges and Heavy Intermediate-mass-ratio Inspirals from Single and Binary Supermassive Black Holes
Lazaros Souvaitzis, Antti Rantala, Thorsten Naab
The most massive galaxies in the Universe also host the largest supermassive black holes (SMBHs), with masses of and above. During their hierarchical a…
Protostellar disks in their natural habitat -- the formation of protostars and their accretion disks in the turbulent and magnetized interstellar medium
Alexander C. Mayer, Thorsten Naab, Paola Caselli +6
We present simulations of the supernova-driven turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) in a simulation domain of volume within which we resolve the formation of pro…
FROST-CLUSTERS -- II. Massive stars, binaries and triples boost supermassive black hole seed formation in assembling star clusters
Antti Rantala, Natalia Lahén, Thorsten Naab +2
Observations and high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations indicate that massive star clusters form through a complex hierarchical assembly. We use simulations including post-Newt…
The ALMA-CRISTAL survey: Gas, dust, and stars in star-forming galaxies when the Universe was ~1 Gyr old I. Survey overview and case studies
R. Herrera-Camus, J. González-López, N. Förster Schreiber +44
We present the ALMA-CRISTAL survey, an ALMA Cycle 8 Large Program designed to investigate the physical properties of star-forming galaxies at through spat…
Caught in the act: detections of recoiling supermassive black holes from simulations
Alexander Rawlings, Peter H. Johansson, Thorsten Naab +3
We study the detectability of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses of displaced by gravitational wave recoil kicks $(v_{\rm ki…
Rapid formation of a very massive star >50000 and subsequently an IMBH from runaway collisions. Direct N-body and Monte Carlo simulations of dense star clusters
Marcelo C. Vergara, Abbas Askar, Albrecht W. H. Kamlah +15
Context. We present simulations of a massive young star cluster using \textsc{Nbody6++GPU} and \textsc{MOCCA}. The cluster is initially more compact than previously published model…
The Noctua Suite of Simulations -- The Difficulty of Growing Massive Black Holes in Low-Mass Dwarf Galaxies
Jonathan Petersson, Michaela Hirschmann, Robin G. Tress +6
Aims. We study the individual and cumulative impact of stellar feedback processes on massive black hole (MBH) growth in a simulated low-mass dwarf galaxy. Methods. A suite of high-…
Mergers all the way down: stellar collisions and kinematics of a dense hierarchically forming massive star cluster in a dwarf starburst
Natalia Lahén, Thorsten Naab, Antti Rantala +1
Recent observations indicate that the progenitors of globular clusters (GCs) at high redshifts had high average stellar surface densities above $10^5\, \mathrm{M}_\odot\, \mathrm{p…
MISTRAL: a model for AGN winds from radiatively efficient accretion in cosmological simulations
Marion Farcy, Michaela Hirschmann, Rachel S. Somerville +11
Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is crucial for regulating galaxy evolution. Motivated by observations of broad absorption line winds from rapidly accreting supermassive…
The role of Massive Black Holes in merging star clusters: dynamical evolution, stellar & compact object ejections and gravitational waves
Lazaros Souvaitzis, Antti Rantala, Thorsten Naab
Star clusters can interact and merge in galactic discs, halos, or centers. We present direct N-body simulations of binary mergers of star clusters with $M_{\star} = 2.7 \times 10^4…
A rapid channel for the collisional formation and gravitational wave driven mergers of supermassive black hole seeds at high redshift
Antti Rantala, Thorsten Naab
Motivated by JWST observations of dense, clumpy and clustered high redshift star formation, we simulate the hierarchical assembly of nine star cluste…
The impact of cosmic ray heating on the cooling of the low-metallicity interstellar medium
Vittoria Brugaletta, Stefanie Walch, Thorsten Naab +6
Low-metallicity environments are subject to inefficient cooling. They also have low dust-to-gas ratios and therefore less efficient photoelectric (PE) heating than in solar-neighbo…
Identifying supermassive black hole recoil in elliptical galaxies
Alexander Rawlings, Atte Keitaanranta, Max Mattero +8
We study stellar core growth in simulations of merging massive () elliptical galaxies by a supermassive black hole (SMBH) displaced by gravitatio…
Moving-mesh non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the collapse of cloud cores to protostars
Alexander C. Mayer, Oliver Zier, Thorsten Naab +5
Magnetic fields have been shown both observationally and through theoretical work to be an important factor in the formation of protostars and their accretion disks. Accurate model…
The formation, evolution and disruption of star clusters with improved gravitational dynamics in simulated dwarf galaxies
Natalia Lahén, Antti Rantala, Thorsten Naab +3
So far, even the highest resolution galaxy formation simulations with gravitational softening have failed to reproduce realistic life cycles of star clusters. We present the first…
SILCC -- VIII: The impact of far-ultraviolet radiation on star formation and the interstellar medium
Tim-Eric Rathjen, Stefanie Walch, Thorsten Naab +4
We present magnetohydrodynamic simulations of star formation in the multiphase interstellar medium to quantify the impact of non-ionising far-ultraviolet (FUV) radiation within the…