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Generation of gravitational waves and tidal disruptions in clumpy galaxies
Boris Pestoni, Elisa Bortolas, Pedro R. Capelo +1
Obtaining a better understanding of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) is crucial, as their properties could shed light on the origin and growth of their supermassive counterpar…
Non-isotropic feedback from accreting spinning black holes
Luca Sala, Elia Cenci, Pedro R. Capelo +2
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are massive black holes (BHs) caught in the act of accreting gas at the centre of their host galaxies. Part of the accreting mass is converted to energ…
Black hole spin evolution in warped accretion discs
Elia Cenci, Luca Sala, Alessandro Lupi +2
Massive black holes (BHs) inhabiting galactic nuclei can be described by two parameters only, i.e. mass and spin, that change through cosmic time in response to accretion and merge…
Revisiting dynamical friction: the role of global modes and local wakes
Tomas Tamfal, Lucio Mayer, Thomas R. Quinn +4
The orbital decay of a perturber within a larger system plays a key role in the dynamics of many astrophysical systems -- from nuclear star clusters or globular clusters in galaxie…
Global torques and stochasticity as the drivers of massive black hole pairing in the young Universe
Elisa Bortolas, Pedro R. Capelo, Tommaso Zana +5
The forthcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will probe the population of coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries up to the onset of structure formation. Here we…
The erratic path to coalescence of LISA massive black hole binaries in sub-pc resolution simulations of smooth circumnuclear gas disks
Rafael Souza Lima, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo +2
We report on high-resolution simulations that explore the orbital decay of massive black hole (MBH) pairs with masses between and embedded in a circumnuclea…