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most citedRABBITS -- I. The crucial role of nuclear star formation in driving the coalescence of supermassive black hole binaries

17 citations · 57 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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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.GA2025★ 2 cited

Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of galaxies over 13 billion years in the COLIBRE hydrodynamical simulations

Claudia del P. Lagos, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +16

We investigate the correlation between star formation rate (SFR) surface density and gas surface density (known as the Kennicutt-Schmidt, KS, relation) at kiloparsec (kpc) scales a…

astro-ph.GA2025

Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations II: The Role of Bursty Versus Smooth Feedback at High-Redshift

Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Aniket Bhagwat +22

The distribution of gas-phase metals within galaxies encodes the impact of stellar feedback on galactic evolution. At high-redshift, when galaxies are rapidly assembling, feedback-…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deep Extragalactic VIsible Legacy Survey (DEVILS): Satellite Quenching at Intermediate Redshift

L. J. M. Davies, M. F. Fuentealba-Fuentes, R. J. Wright +3

Determining the processes by which galaxies transition from a star-forming to a quiescent state (quenching) is paramount to our understanding of galaxy evolution. One of the key me…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations I: Tension Between Smooth Stellar Feedback Models and Observations

Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Aniket Bhagwat +14

The metallicity of galaxies, and its variation with galactocentric radius, provides key insights into the formation histories of galaxies and the physical processes driving their e…

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

Apostle--Auriga: Effects of stellar feedback subgrid models on the evolution of angular momentum in disc galaxies

Hang Yang, Shihong Liao, Azadeh Fattahi +7

Utilizing the Apostle--Auriga simulations, which start from the same zoom-in initial conditions of Local Group-like systems but run with different galaxy formation subgrid models a…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 10 cited

Apocalypse When? No Certainty of a Milky Way -- Andromeda Collision

Till Sawala, Jehanne Delhomelle, Alis J. Deason +5

It is commonly believed that our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy. As a result of their merger, predicted in around five billion years,…

astro-ph.GA2024

Does the Fundamental Metallicity Relation Evolve with Redshift? II: The Evolution in Normalisation of the Mass-Metallicity Relation

Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Sara L. Ellison +10

The metal content of galaxies is a direct probe of the baryon cycle. A hallmark example is the relationship between a galaxy's stellar mass, star formation rate (SFR), and gas-phas…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 8 cited

Disentangling the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes with PRIMA

L. Bisigello, C. Gruppioni, A. Bolatto +11

The most active phases of star formation and black hole accretion are strongly affected by dust extinction, making far-infrared (far-IR) observations the best way to disentangle an…

astro-ph.GA2024

Does the Fundamental Metallicity Relation Evolve with Redshift? I: The Correlation Between Offsets from the Mass-Metallicity Relation and Star Formation Rate

Alex M. Garcia, Paul Torrey, Sara Ellison +8

The scatter about the mass-metallicity relation (MZR) has a correlation with the star formation rate (SFR) of galaxies. The lack of evidence of evolution in correlated scatter at $…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 17 cited

RABBITS -- I. The crucial role of nuclear star formation in driving the coalescence of supermassive black hole binaries

Shihong Liao, Dimitrios Irodotou, Peter H. Johansson +5

In this study of the `Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series, we focus on the hardening and coalescing process of super…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 10 cited

RABBITS -- II. The impact of AGN feedback on coalescing supermassive black holes in disc and elliptical galaxy mergers

Shihong Liao, Dimitrios Irodotou, Peter H. Johansson +5

In this study of the `Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series, we investigate the orbital evolution of supermassive blac…