English
Related papers

Related papers: Towards understanding feedback from supermassive b…

200 papers

This short document illustrates QLUSTER: a toy model for populations of binary black holes in dense astrophysical environments. QLUSTER is a simple tool to investigate the occurrence and properties of hierarchical black-hole mergers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-30 Davide Gerosa , Matthew Mould

Machine learning is a powerful technique, becoming increasingly popular in astrophysics. In this paper, we apply machine learning to more than a thousand globular cluster (GC) models simulated as part of the 'MOCCA-Survey Database I'…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Ammar Askar , Abbas Askar , Mario Pasquato , Mirek Giersz

Understanding the formation and evolution of ring galaxies, which possess an atypical ring-like structure, is crucial for advancing knowledge of black holes and galaxy dynamics. However, current catalogs of ring galaxies are limited, as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Harish Krishnakumar , J. Bryce Kalmbach

The growing number of binary black hole mergers detected through gravitational waves offers unprecedented insight into their underlying population, yet their astrophysical formation channels remain unresolved. We present a new method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 William J. Smith , Krystal Ruiz-Rocha , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Michela Mapelli , Karan Jani

We study the distribution of X-ray selected clusters of galaxies with respect to superclusters determined by Abell clusters of galaxies and show that the distribution of X-ray clusters follows the supercluster-void network determined by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Einasto , J. Einasto , E. Tago , V. M"uller , H. Andernach

More than 300 supermassive black holes have been detected at redshifts larger than 6, and they are abundant in the centers of local galaxies. Their formation mechanisms, however, are still rather unconstrained. A possible origin of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Benjamin Gaete , Dominik R. G. Schleicher , Alessandro Lupi , Bastian Reinoso , Michael Fellhauer , Marcelo C. Vergara

We present the mass--spin diagram for classifying black holes and studying their formation pathways providing an analogue to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. This allows for black hole evolutionary tracks as a function of redshift,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb

ROSAT deep and shallow surveys have provided an almost complete inventory of the constituents of the soft X-ray background which led to a population synthesis model for the whole X-ray background with interesting cosmological consequences.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Guenther Hasinger

The central engines of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are powered by accreting supermassive black holes, and while AGNs are known to play an important role in galaxy evolution, the key physical processes occur on scales that are too small to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-10 Edward M. Cackett , Misty C. Bentz , Erin Kara

We present a novel approach to identify galaxy clusters that are undergoing a merger using a deep learning approach. This paper uses massive galaxy clusters spanning $0 \leq z \leq 2$ from \textsc{The Three Hundred} project, a suite of…

The groundbreaking discoveries of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers and, most recently, coalescing neutron stars started a new era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and revolutionized our understanding of the Cosmos. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Plamen G. Krastev

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have demonstrated potential for the real-time analysis of data from gravitational-wave detector networks for the specific case of signals from coalescing compact-object binaries such as black-hole…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Vasileios Skliris , Michael R. K. Norman , Patrick J. Sutton

We perform a comprehensive study of X-ray cavities using a large sample of X-ray targets selected from the Chandra archive. The sample is selected to cover a large dynamic range including galaxy clusters, groups, and individual galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Jaejin Shin , Jong-Hak Woo , John S. Mulchaey

In this paper we push forward and exploit an analogy between the morphologies of the X-ray cavities observed in some galaxy clusters, and the optically deficient point-symmetric bubbles occurring in some planetary nebulae (PNe).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Fabio Pizzolato Noam Soker

Dwarf galaxies are ideal laboratories to probe the interplay between galaxy formation and the growth of black holes (BHs) in the early Universe. Mounting observational evidence reveals the presence of BHs in low-mass galaxies across cosmic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 Giulia Ortame , Martin A. Bourne , Sophie Koudmani , Debora Sijacki , Francesco D'Eugenio , Roberto Maiolino

In large scale cosmological hydrodynamic simulations simplified sub-grid models for gas accretion onto black holes and AGN feedback are commonly used. Such models typically depend on various free parameters, which are not well constrained.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Lisa K. Steinborn , Klaus Dolag , Michaela Hirschmann , M. Almudena Prieto , Rhea-Silvia Remus

We combine multiwavelength data in the AEGIS-XD and C-COSMOS surveys to measure the typical dark matter halo mass of X-ray selected AGN [Lx(2-10keV)>1e42 erg/s] in comparison with far-infrared selected star-forming galaxies detected in the…

Recent work has confirmed that the masses of supermassive black holes, estimated from scaling relations with global properties such as the stellar masses of their host galaxies, may be biased high. Much of this may be caused by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-11 Enrico Barausse , Francesco Shankar , Mariangela Bernardi , Yohan Dubois , Ravi K. Sheth

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of the galaxy cluster population in the z=0 snapshot of the IllustrisTNG simulations, utilizing machine learning techniques to perform clustering and regression tasks. We examine five…

Different models of dark matter can alter the distribution of mass in galaxy clusters in a variety of ways. However, so can uncertain astrophysical feedback mechanisms. Here we present a Machine Learning method that ''learns'' how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 David Harvey