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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…
Dynamical evolution of massive perturbers in realistic multi-component galaxy models I: implementation and validation
Matteo Bonetti, Elisa Bortolas, Alessandro Lupi +1
Galaxies are self-gravitating structures composed by several components encompassing spherical, axial and triaxial symmetry. Although real systems feature heterogeneous components…
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…
Dynamical friction-driven orbital circularisation in rotating discs: a semi-analytical description
Matteo Bonetti, Elisa Bortolas, Alessandro Lupi +2
We present and validate a novel semi-analytical approach to study the effect of dynamical friction on the orbits of massive perturbers in rotating stellar discs. We find that dynam…