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Formation and Hardening of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies
Fazeel Mahmood Khan, Ingo Berentzen, Peter Berczik +4
We model for the first time the complete orbital evolution of a pair of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) in a 1:10 galaxy merger of two disk dominated gas-rich galaxies, from the s…
Mergers of Unequal Mass Galaxies: Supermassive Black Hole Binary Evolution and Structure of Merger Remnants
Fazeel Mahmood Khan, Miguel Preto, Peter Berczik +3
Galaxy centers are residing places for Super Massive Black Holes (SMBHs). Galaxy mergers bring SMBHs close together to form gravitationally bound binary systems which, if able to c…
Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Miguel Preto, Ingo Berentzen, Peter Berczik +1
We investigate a purely stellar dynamical solution to the Final Parsec Problem. Galactic nuclei resulting from major mergers are not spherical, but show some degree of triaxiality.…
Binary Black Hole Merger in Galactic Nuclei: Post-Newtonian Simulations
Ingo Berentzen, Miguel Preto, Peter Berczik +2
This paper studies the formation and evolution of binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in rotating galactic nuclei, focusing on the role of stellar dynamics. We present the firs…
Merger of Massive Black Holes using N-Body Simulations with Post-Newtonian Corrections
Miguel Preto, Ingo Berentzen, Peter Berczik +2
We present preliminary results from self-consistent, high resolution direct {\it N}-body simulations of massive black hole binaries in mergers of galactic nuclei. The dynamics of t…
High resolution in z-direction: The simulation of disc-bulge-halo galaxies using the particle-mesh code SUPERBOX
R. Bien, A. Just, P. Berczik +1
SUPERBOX is known as a very efficient particle-mesh code with highly-resolving sub-grids. Nevertheless, the height of a typical galactic disc is small compared to the size of the w…