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astro-ph.CO2012
Growing supermassive black holes: sub-grid modelling and intermediate-scale processes
Alexander Hobbs
The sheer range of scales in the Universe makes it impossible to model all at once. It is necessary, therefore, when conducting numerical experiments, that we employ sub-resolution…
astro-ph.GA2012★ 51 cited
Thermal instabilities in cooling galactic coronae: fuelling star formation in galactic discs
Alexander Hobbs, Justin Read, Chris Power +1
We investigate the means by which cold gas can accrete onto Milky Way mass galaxies from a hot corona of gas, using a new smoothed particle hydrodynamics code, 'SPHS'. We find that…
astro-ph.IM2012★ 39 cited
Modelling supermassive black hole growth: towards an improved sub-grid prescription
Alexander Hobbs, Chris Power, Sergei Nayakshin +1
Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galaxy formation simulations is frequently modelled by the Bondi-Hoyle formalism. Here we examine the validity of this approach a…