Electromagnetic counterparts to massive black-hole mergers

T Bogdanović, MC Miller, L Blecha - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2022 - Springer
The next two decades are expected to open the door to the first coincident detections of
electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational-wave (GW) signatures associated with massive …

Implications for the supermassive black hole binaries from the NANOGrav 15-year data set

YC Bi, YM Wu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Science China Physics, Mechanics …, 2023 - Springer
Several pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations, including NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, and
CPTA, have announced the evidence for a stochastic signal consistent with a stochastic …

Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): survey diagnostics and core data release

SP Driver, DT Hill, LS Kelvin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey has been operating since 2008
February on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope using the AAOmega fibre-fed …

The propagation of uncertainties in stellar population synthesis modeling. I. The relevance of uncertain aspects of stellar evolution and the initial mass function to the …

C Conroy, JE Gunn, M White - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The stellar masses, mean ages, metallicities, and star formation histories of galaxies are
now commonly estimated via stellar population synthesis (SPS) techniques. SPS relies on …

Nine new repeating fast radio burst sources from CHIME/FRB

E Fonseca, BC Andersen, M Bhardwaj… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the discovery and analysis of bursts from nine new repeating fast radio burst
(FRB) sources found using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) …

Observational constraints on the merger history of galaxies since z≈ 6: probabilistic galaxy pair counts in the CANDELS fields

K Duncan, CJ Conselice, C Mundy, E Bell… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy mergers are expected to have a significant role in the mass assembly of galaxies in
the early universe, but there are very few observational constraints on the merger history of …

A cosmological framework for the co-evolution of quasars, supermassive black holes, and elliptical galaxies. I. Galaxy mergers and quasar activity

PF Hopkins, L Hernquist, TJ Cox… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a model for the cosmological role of mergers in the evolution of starbursts,
quasars, and spheroidal galaxies. By combining theoretically well-constrained halo and …

Minor mergers and the size evolution of elliptical galaxies

T Naab, PH Johansson, JP Ostriker - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a high-resolution hydrodynamical cosmological simulation of the formation of a
massive spheroidal galaxy we show that elliptical galaxies can be very compact and …

The ATLAS3D project – XXV. Two-dimensional kinematic analysis of simulated galaxies and the cosmological origin of fast and slow rotators

T Naab, L Oser, E Emsellem… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present a detailed two-dimensional stellar dynamical analysis of a sample of 44
cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of individual central galaxies with stellar masses …

zCOSMOS–10k-bright spectroscopic sample-the bimodality in the galaxy stellar mass function: exploring its evolution with redshift

L Pozzetti, M Bolzonella, E Zucca, G Zamorani… - Astronomy & …, 2010 - aanda.org
We present the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) to redshift z≃ 1, based on the analysis
of about 8500 galaxies with I< 22.5 (AB mag) over 1.4 deg 2, which are part of the …