Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

Observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes

M Mezcua - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2017 - World Scientific
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses in the range 1 0 0–1 0 6 M⊙, are the
link between stellar-mass BHs and supermassive BHs (SMBHs). They are thought to be the …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-III. Search for gravitational wave signals

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave
background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: V. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter and the early Universe

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA)
collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their …

Ultralight scalars as cosmological dark matter

L Hui, JP Ostriker, S Tremaine, E Witten - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Many aspects of the large-scale structure of the Universe can be described successfully
using cosmological models in which 27±1% of the critical mass-energy density consists of …

An ultraluminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30

XB Wu, F Wang, X Fan, W Yi, W Zuo, F Bian, L Jiang… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
So far, roughly 40 quasars with redshifts greater than z= 6 have been discovered,,,,,,,. Each
quasar contains a black hole with a mass of about one billion solar masses (109),,,,,,,. The …

Revisiting the scaling relations of black hole masses and host galaxy properties

NJ McConnell, CP Ma - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
New kinematic data and modeling efforts in the past few years have substantially expanded
and revised dynamical measurements of black hole masses (M•) at the centers of nearby …

Structure and kinematics of early-type galaxies from integral field spectroscopy

M Cappellari - Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Observations of galaxy isophotes, long-slit kinematics, and high-resolution photometry
suggested a possible dichotomy between two distinct classes of elliptical galaxies. But these …

How do central and satellite galaxies quench?–Insights from spatially resolved spectroscopy in the MaNGA survey

AFL Bluck, R Maiolino, JM Piotrowska… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We investigate how star formation quenching proceeds within central and satellite galaxies
using spatially resolved spectroscopy from the SDSS-IV MaNGA DR15. We adopt a …

The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction …

M Cappellari, RM McDermid, K Alatalo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In the companion Paper XV of this series, we derive accurate total mass-to-light ratios within
a sphere of radius centred on the galaxy, as well as stellar (M/L) stars (with the dark matter …