10 papers
The LISA Astrophysics MBHcatalogues Project: A comparison of predictions of simulated massive black hole binaries
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Melanie Habouzit, Matteo Bonetti +67
In the hierarchical paradigm of galaxy formation, central massive black holes (MBHs) are expected to coalesce after the merger of their host galaxies. One of the main goals of the…
Massive Star Clusters in the Semi-Analytical Galaxy Formation Model L-Galaxies 2020
Nils Hoyer, Silvia Bonoli, Nate Bastian +7
It is established that there exists a direct link between the formation history of star cluster populations and their host galaxies. However, our lack of understanding of the assem…
Constraints on the early growth of massive black holes from PTA and JWST with L-GalaxiesBH
Silvia Bonoli, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Daniele Spinoso +4
Recent Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) results provided strong evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (sGWB), consistent with a population of merging massive black hol…
Off-center black hole seed formation? Implications for high and low redshift massive black holes
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Daniele Spinoso, Marta Volonteri +3
Recent studies show that light seeds of black holes, which grow into massive black holes (MBHs) over time, often struggle to remain at the centers of their birthplaces in high-reds…
Identifying massive black hole binaries via light curve variability in optical time-domain surveys
Alfredo Chiesa, David Izquierdo-Villalba, Alberto Sesana +5
Accreting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) often display periodic variations in their emitted radiation, providing a distinctive signature for their identification. In this work…
Study of barred galaxies in IllustrisTNG100: the case of low surface brightness galaxies
Karol Chim-Ramirez, Bernardo Cervantes-Sodi, Yetli Rosas-Guevara +2
In this work, we compare the presence of stellar bars in low and high surface brightness galaxies (LSBs and HSBs, respectively) using the TNG100 simulation of the IllustrisTNG proj…