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20242026
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9 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Matter Clustering in Astrid: Reduced Baryonic Suppression from Realistic Black Hole Dynamics

Yanhui Yang, Simeon Bird, Yihao Zhou +4

Baryonic feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is often invoked as a major source of suppression in the matter power spectrum, with implications for precision cosmology and th…

astro-ph.GA2025

Gravitational Waves from Massive Black Hole Mergers in ASTRID: Predictions for LISA

Bonny Y. Wang, Yihao Zhou, William Chen +5

We use the ASTRID cosmological simulation to forecast massive black hole (MBH) mergers detectable by Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) down to . ASTRID directly models…

astro-ph.GA2025

Heavy seeds and the first black holes: Insights from the BRAHMA simulations

Aklant K. Bhowmick, Laura Blecha, Paul Torrey +9

From the luminous quasars at to the recent AGNs revealed by JWST, observations of the earliest black hole (BH) populations can provide unique constraints o…

astro-ph.GA2025

Central Cluster Galaxies: A Hotspot for Detectable Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers

Yihao Zhou, Tiziana Di Matteo, Nianyi Chen +6

After Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have announced the evidence for a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB), the continuous waves (CWs) are the next anticipated gravitati…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dynamics of low-mass black hole seeds in the BRAHMA simulations using subgrid-dynamical friction: Impact on merger-driven black hole growth in the high redshift Universe

Aklant K. Bhowmick, Laura Blecha, Luke Z. Kelley +7

We analyze the dynamics of low-mass black hole (BH) seeds in the high-redshift () Universe using a suite of and BRAHMA cosmol…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Gravitational Wave Background from Massive Black Holes in the ASTRID Simulation

Nianyi Chen, Tiziana Di Matteo, Yihao Zhou +6

Recent pulsar timing array (PTA) observations have detected nanohertz gravitational waves, likely originating from massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). The detected amplitude is un…