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Modeling the Retention Probability of Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Kicks and Rates
Kenneth Moody, Steinn Sigurdsson
We simulate black hole binary interactions to examine the probability of mergers and black hole growth and gravitational radiation signals using a specific initial distribution of…
SDSS J092712.65+294344.0: Recoiling Black Hole or A Sub-parsec Binary Candidate?
Tamara Bogdanovic, Michael Eracleous, Steinn Sigurdsson
A search for recoiling supermassive black hole candidates recently yielded the best candidate thus far, SDSS J092712.65+294344.0 reported by Komossa et al. Here we propose the alte…
Observing white dwarfs orbiting massive black holes in the gravitational wave and electro-magnetic window
A. Sesana, A. Vecchio, M. Eracleous +1
We consider a potentially new class of gravitational wave sources consisting of a white dwarf coalescing into a massive black hole in the mass range ~10^4-10^5\msun. These sources…
Three Modes of Metal-Enriched Star Formation in the Early Universe
Britton D. Smith, Matthew J. Turk, Steinn Sigurdsson +2
Simulations of the formation of Population III (Pop III) stars suggest that they were much more massive than the Pop II and Pop I stars observed today. This is due to the collapse…
Black Hole Growth from Cosmological N-body Simulations
Miroslav Micic, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Steinn Sigurdsson
(Abridged) We use high resolution cosmological N-body simulations to study the growth of intermediate to supermassive black holes from redshift 49 to zero. We track the growth of b…