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From ASTRID to BRAHMA -- The role of overmassive black holes in little red dots in cosmological simulations

Patrick LaChance, Aklant Kumar Bhowmick, Rupert A. C. Croft +8

We leverage the overmassive black holes () present in a realization of the BRAHMA cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to investigate their ro…

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The abundance and properties of the lowest luminosity dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way: Insights from Semi-Analytic Models

Niusha Ahvazi, Andrew B. Pace, Christopher T. Garling +11

We investigate the formation and observable properties of faint satellite galaxies (M$_\rm V > -3$) in Milky Way-like halos using the semi-analytic galaxy formation model Galacticu…

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AGN feedback in merging galaxies with a SMUGGLE multiphase ISM

Aneesh Sivasankaran, Laura Blecha, Paul Torrey +6

We study fast nuclear winds driven by Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) feedback in merging galaxies using high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations. We use Stars and MUltiphase Gas in…

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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…

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Heavy seeds and the first black holes: Insights from the BRAHMA simulations

Aklant K. Bhowmick, Laura Blecha, Paul Torrey +9

From the luminous quasars at to the recent AGNs revealed by JWST, observations of the earliest black hole (BH) populations can provide unique constraints o…

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Accretion onto supermassive and intermediate mass black holes in cosmological simulations

Rainer Weinberger, Aklant Bhowmick, Laura Blecha +5

Accretion is the dominant contribution to the cosmic massive black hole density in the Universe today. Yet, modelling it in cosmological simulations is challenging due to the dynam…