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Are ring galaxies the ancestors of giant low surface brightness galaxies?
M. Mapelli, B. Moore, E. Ripamonti +4
Giant low surface brightness galaxies (GLSBs) have flat discs extending up to ~100 kpc. Their formation is a puzzle for cosmological simulations in the cold dark matter scenario. W…
Pairing of Supermassive Black Holes in unequal-mass mergers
S. Callegari, L. Mayer, S. Kazantzidis
Disk galaxies with a spheroidal component are known to host Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) in their center. Unequal-mass galaxy mergers have been rarely studied despite the fact…
Formation of Nuclear Disks and Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Multi-Scale Hydrodynamical Galaxy Mergers
Lucio Mayer, Stelios Kazantzidis, Andres Escala
(Abridged) We review the results of the first multi-scale, hydrodynamical simulations of mergers between galaxies with central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to investigate the f…
Migration and growth of giant planets in self-gravitating disks with varied thermodynamics
Laure Fouchet, Lucio Mayer
We report on the results of novel global high-resolution three-dimensional simulations of disk-planet interaction which incorporate simultaneously realistic radiation physics and t…
Protoplanetary disk fragmentation with varying radiative physics, initial conditions and numerical techniques
Lucio Mayer, Artur Gawryszczak
We review recent results of SPH simulations of gravitational instability in gaseous protoplanetary disks,emphasizing the role of thermodynamics in both isolated and binary systems.…
Rapid Formation of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Galaxy Mergers with Gas
Lucio Mayer, Stelios Kazantzidis, Piero Madau +3
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are a ubiquitous component of the nuclei of galaxies. It is normally assumed that, following the merger of two massive galaxies, a SMBH binary will…