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most citedIdentifying supermassive black hole recoil in elliptical galaxies

9 citations · 25 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The impact of primordial magnetic fields on the formation of galaxies

Yao-Yu Li, Shihong Liao, Yue-Lin Sming Tsai +1

Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs), potentially generated during cosmic inflation or early-universe phase transitions, can modify cosmic structure formation by enhancing the post-re…

astro-ph.GA2026

RABBITS IV: Stellar feedback and SMBH merging time-scales in the sub-Milky Way mass regime

Ruby J. Wright, Roosa Heiskanen, Shihong Liao +5

Merging supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in low- and intermediate-mass galaxies are important sources for future millihertz gravitational-wave observatories such as LISA. Predictin…

astro-ph.GA2026

First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XXII: UV-dust spatial offsets at the Epoch of Reionisation

Paurush Punyasheel, Aswin P. Vijayan, William J. Roper +8

Recent observations have revealed intriguing offsets between the UV and FIR emission in high redshift galaxies. In this study, we use the First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulat…

astro-ph.CO2026

Measuring neutrino mass and asymmetry through galaxy pairwise peculiar velocity

Wangzheng Zhang, Ming-chung Chu, Shihong Liao

Cosmic neutrinos are among the most abundant fermions in the Universe, yet the values of their masses and chemical potentials remain uncertain. In this Letter, we present the first…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Quenching Mechanisms of Field Dwarf Galaxies

Zuoyu Wu, Yougang Wang, Shihong Liao

Isolated dwarf galaxies are intrinsically faint and difficult to detect. The limited sample size makes it challenging to observationally constrain the physical mechanisms that quen…

astro-ph.GA2026

RABBITS - III. Modelling relativistic accretion discs around spinning black holes in galaxy formation simulations

Dimitrios Irodotou, Shihong Liao, Theodoros Nakas +6

In this third study of the 'Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series we develop and implement a geometrically thin relati…

astro-ph.CO2026

Halo abundance and clustering in cosmologies with massive and asymmetric neutrinos

Yizhou Liu, Wangzheng Zhang, Shihong Liao +1

Neutrinos are the most abundant fermions in the Universe and influence the formation of large-scale structure through both their non-zero masses and a possible chemical potential w…

astro-ph.GA2025

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_{\…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XX: Comparing semi-analytic models at high-redshift

Louise T. C. Seeyave, Carlton M. Baugh, Angel Chandro-Gomez +13

We explore how the choice of galaxy formation model affects the predicted properties of high-redshift galaxies. Using the FLARES zoom resimulation strategy, we compare the EAGLE hy…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Nature of High-Redshift Massive Quiescent Galaxies -- Searching for RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 in FLARES

Jack C. Turner, Will J. Roper, Aswin P. Vijayan +5

RUBIES-UDS-QG-z7 (RQG) is the earliest massive quiescent galaxy identified to date, inferred to have formed its abundant stellar mass in a single burst that ceases rapidly before $…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

Interpreting nebular emission lines in the high-redshift Universe

Aswin P. Vijayan, Robert M. Yates, Christopher C. Lovell +7

One of the most remarkable outcomes from \textit{JWST} has been the exquisite UV-optical spectroscopic data for galaxies in the high-redshift Universe (), enabling the us…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) -- XIX: Supermassive black hole mergers in the early Universe and their environmental dependence

Shihong Liao, Dimitrios Irodotou, Maxwell G. A. Maltz +10

The upcoming space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory, LISA, is expected to detect GW signals from supermassive black hole (SMBH) mergers occurring at high redshifts. Howeve…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

First Light and Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVII: Learning the galaxy-halo connection at high redshifts

Maxwell G. A. Maltz, Peter A. Thomas, Christoper C. Lovell +6

Understanding the galaxy-halo relationship is not only key for elucidating the interplay between baryonic and dark matter, it is essential for creating large mock galaxy catalogues…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 9 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Prospects for detecting cosmic filaments in Lyman-alpha emission across redshifts

Yizhou Liu, Liang Gao, Shihong Liao +1

The standard CDM cosmological model predicts that a large amount of diffuse neutral hydrogen distributes in cosmic filaments, which could be mapped through Lyman-alpha (Ly$α…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

First Light and Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) -- XV: The physical properties of super-massive black holes and their impact on galaxies in the early universe

Stephen M. Wilkins, Jussi K. Kuusisto, Dimitrios Irodotou +9

Understanding the co-evolution of super-massive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies remains a key challenge of extragalactic astrophysics, particularly the earliest stages…