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Interaction of massive black hole binaries with their stellar environment: III. Scattering of bound stars
Alberto Sesana, Francesco Haardt, Piero Madau
We develop a formalism for studying the dynamics of massive black hole binaries embedded in gravitationally-bound stellar cusps, and study the binary orbital decay by three-body in…
Extreme recoils: impact on the detection of gravitational waves from massive black hole binaries
A. Sesana
Recent numerical simulations of coalescences of highly spinning massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) suggest that the remnant can suffer a recoil velocity of the order of few thousa…
Hypervelocity stars and the environment of Sgr A*
A. Sesana, F. Haardt, P. Madau
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) are a natural consequence of the presence of a massive nuclear black hole (Sgr A*) in the Galactic Center. Here we use the Brown et al. sample of unbound…
The imprint of massive black hole formation models on the LISA data stream
Alberto Sesana, Marta Volonteri, Francesco Haardt
The formation, merging, and accretion history of massive black holes along the hierarchical build--up of cosmic structures leaves a unique imprint on the background of gravitationa…