most citedRealistic consecutive galaxy mergers form eccentric PTA sources

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astro-ph.GA2026

Perturber-Driven Dynamics of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Galaxy Merger

Julian Chan, Alessia Gualandris, Walter Dehnen +1

The orbital eccentricity of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at binary formation shapes the stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PT…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dark Matter in Draco and Boötes I: Hints of a Core in an Ultra-Faint Dwarf from Simulation-Based Inference

Tri Nguyen, Lina Necib, Ting S. Li +8

The density profiles of dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most sensitive probes of dark matter physics, yet extracting them from noisy stellar kinematics remains a fundamenta…

astro-ph.GA2026

VINTERGATAN-GM: long-lived satellite planes induced by a massive GSE-like merger

R. Rodríguez-Cardoso, S. Roca-Fàbrega, Oscar Agertz +7

Satellite galaxies in the Local Group tend to be distributed in thin, planar configurations, with many sharing coherent orbital motion. Galaxy formation simulations in CDM have…

astro-ph.GA2026

Converging on the eccentricity of massive black hole binaries in galactic mergers

Alessia Gualandris, Justin Read, Federica Fastidio +4

Binaries of supermassive black holes (MBHBs) represent the primary sources of the gravitational wave background (GWB) detectable by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). The eccentricity wi…

astro-ph.GA2025

Black hole dragging: a new mechanism for forming nuclear star clusters in giant elliptical galaxies

Nader Khonji, Alessia Gualandris, Justin I. Read +1

It has long been thought that nuclear star clusters (NSCs) cannot co-exist with the most massive supermassive black holes (SMBHs), since SMBH mergers - unavoidable for the most mas…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 6 cited

Realistic consecutive galaxy mergers form eccentric PTA sources

Federica Fastidio, Elisa Bortolas, Alessia Gualandris +3

Results from pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) show evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) consistent with a population of unresolved supermassive black hole binaries (BHBs).…