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The kinematic signature of the inspiral phase of massive binary black holes
Yohai Meiron, Ari Laor
Supermassive black holes are expected to pair as a result of galaxy mergers, and form a bound binary at parsec or sub-parsec scales. These scales are unresolved even in nearby gala…
The limited role of mergers in the black hole to bulge mass relation
Carmit Gordon Lahav, Yohai Meiron, Noam Soker
We examine the intrinsic scatter in the correlation between black hole masses and their host bulge masses, and find that it cannot be accounted for by mergers alone. A simple merge…
A conservation-based method for simulating the inspiral of binary black holes
Yohai Meiron, Ari Laor
We present a new approach to studying the evolution of massive black hole binaries in a stellar environment. By imposing conservation of total energy and angular momentum in scatte…
The Stellar Kinematic Signature of Massive Black Hole Binaries
Yohai Meiron, Ari Laor
The stalling radius of a merging massive binary black hole (BBH) is expected to be below 0".1 even in nearby galaxies (Yu 2002), and thus BBHs are not expected to be spatially reso…
Correlation of Black Hole and Bulge Masses: Driven by Energy but Correlated with Momentum
Noam Soker, Yohai Meiron
We use a recent sample of 49 galaxies to show that there is a proportionality relation between the black hole mass M_BH and the quantity μ=M_G*σ/c, where M_G is mass of the spheroi…