Black hole binary formation in AGN discs: from isolation to merger

C Rowan, T Boekholt, B Kocsis… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivated by the increasing number of detections of merging black holes by LIGO-VIRGO-
KAGRA, black hole (BH) binary mergers in the discs of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is …

Observational signatures of supermassive black hole binaries

DJ D'Orazio, M Charisi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.16896, 2023 - arxiv.org
Despite solid theoretical and observational grounds for the pairing of supermassive black
holes (SMBHs) after galaxy mergers, definitive evidence for the existence of close (sub …

Multimessenger astronomy with black holes

DJ D'Orazio, M Charisi, A Derdzinski, L Zwick… - Black Holes in the Era of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most, if not all, galaxies harbor at their center a supermassive black hole (SMBH) that sculpts
the dynamics of objects inhabiting galactic nuclei. SMBH binaries (SMBHBs) are expected to …

Eccentric binaries in retrograde discs

C Tiede, DJ D'Orazio - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Modern numerical hydrodynamics tools have recently enabled detailed examinations of
binaries accreting from prograde circumbinary discs. These have reframed the current …

Disappearing thermal X-ray emission as a tell-tale signature of merging massive black hole binaries

LM Krauth, J Davelaar, Z Haiman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect
gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole binaries (MBHB). Finding the …

Eccentric Minidisks in Accreting Binaries

JR Westernacher-Schneider, J Zrake… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that gas disks around the components of an orbiting binary system (so-called
minidisks) may be susceptible to a resonant instability that causes the minidisks to become …

Black hole binaries in AGN accretion discs–II. Gas effects on black hole satellite scatterings

C Rowan, H Whitehead, T Boekholt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The black hole (BH) binaries in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are expected to form mainly
through scattering encounters in the ambient gaseous medium. Recent simulations …

[HTML][HTML] The nanograv 15 yr data set: Looking for signs of discreteness in the gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The cosmic merger history of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) is expected to
produce a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB). Here we investigate how …

Multiwavelength analysis of Fermi-LAT blazars with high-significance periodicity: detection of a long-term rising emission in PG 1553+113

P Peñil, JR Westernacher-Schneider… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Blazars display variable emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with time-
scales that can range from a few minutes to several years. Our recent work has shown that a …

Disk-induced Binary Precession: Implications for Dynamics and Multimessenger Observations of Black Hole Binaries

C Tiede, DJ D'Orazio, L Zwick… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Many studies have recently documented the orbital response of eccentric binaries accreting
from thin circumbinary disks, characterizing the change in the binary semimajor axis and …