3 papers
astro-ph.GA2025
Early Stages of Dusty Tori: The First Infrared Spectra from a Highly Multiscale Quasar Simulation
Jaeden Bardati, Philip F. Hopkins, Gordon T. Richards
We present the first infrared spectral predictions from a self-consistent simulation of the formation of a quasar in a starburst galaxy, spanning the cosmological environment to sc…
astro-ph.GA2025
Predicting Potential Host Galaxies of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Based on Stellar Kinematics in Archival IFU Surveys
Patrick Horlaville, John J. Ruan, Michael Eracleous +3
Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) at the centers of galaxies emit continuous gravitational waves (GWs) at nanohertz frequencies, and ongoing pulsar timing array (PTA) exper…
astro-ph.GA2025
Zooming In On The Multi-Phase Structure of Magnetically-Dominated Quasar Disks: Radiation From Torus to ISCO Across Accretion Rates
Philip F. Hopkins, Kung-Yi Su, Norman Murray +12
Recent radiation-thermochemical-magnetohydrodynamic simulations resolved formation of quasar accretion disks from cosmological scales down to ~300 gravitational radii , argu…