Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

Star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon

NM Förster Schreiber, S Wuyts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Ever deeper and wider look-back surveys have led to a fairly robust outline of the cosmic
star-formation history, which culminated around; this period is often nicknamed “cosmic …

A JWST/NIRSpec First Census of Broad-line AGNs at z= 4–7: Detection of 10 Faint AGNs with M BH∼ 106–108 M⊙ and Their Host Galaxy Properties

Y Harikane, Y Zhang, K Nakajima… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first statistical sample of faint type 1 AGNs at z> 4 identified by
JWST/NIRSpec deep spectroscopy. Among the 185 galaxies at z spec= 3.8–8.9 confirmed …

GA-NIFS: A massive black hole in a low-metallicity AGN at z∼ 5.55 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS

H Übler, R Maiolino, E Curtis-Lake… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present rest-frame optical data of the compact z= 5.55 galaxy GS_3073 obtained using
the integral field spectroscopy mode of the Near-InfraRed Spectrograph on board the James …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback

R Weinberger, V Springel, L Hernquist… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The inefficiency of star formation in massive elliptical galaxies is widely believed to be
caused by the interactions of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with the surrounding gas …

AGN wind scaling relations and the co-evolution of black holes and galaxies

F Fiore, C Feruglio, F Shankar, M Bischetti… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. Feedback from accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is often identified as
the main mechanism responsible for regulating star formation in active galactic nucleus …

Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation

R Weinberger, V Springel, R Pakmor… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We study the population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their effects on massive
central galaxies in the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy …

A new class of accurate, mesh-free hydrodynamic simulation methods

PF Hopkins - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present two new Lagrangian methods for hydrodynamics, in a systematic comparison
with moving-mesh, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and stationary (non-moving) …

Introducing the Illustris project: the evolution of galaxy populations across cosmic time

S Genel, M Vogelsberger, V Springel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present an overview of galaxy evolution across cosmic time in the Illustris simulation.
Illustris is an N-body/hydrodynamical simulation that evolves 2× 18203 resolution elements …