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Collisions of non-topological solitons, Q-balls, are studied in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in two different cases: where supersymmetry has been broken by a gravitationally coupled hidden sector and by a gauge mediated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Tuomas Multamaki

The recent observations of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshift challenge our understanding of their formation and growth. There are different proposed pathways to form black hole (BH) seeds, such as the remnants of the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-22 Tilman Hartwig

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are those between 100 and 10$^5$ solar masses ($M_{\odot}$); their formation process is debated. One possible origin is the growth of less massive black holes (BHs) via mergers with stars and compact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-12 Michiko S. Fujii , Long Wang , Ataru Tanikawa , Yutaka Hirai , Takayuki R. Saitoh

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are common in local galactic nuclei, and SMBHs as massive as several billion solar masses already exist at redshift z=6. These earliest SMBHs may grow by the combination of radiation-pressure-limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zoltán Haiman

It is known that after Affleck-Dine baryogenesis, spatial inhomogeneities of Affleck-Dine field grow into non-topological solitons called Q-balls. In gauge mediated SUSY breaking models, sufficiently large Q-balls with baryon charge are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-23 Jeong-Pyong Hong , Masahiro Kawasaki , Masaki Yamada

We study compact gravitating $Q$-ball, $Q$-shell solutions in a sigma model with the target space $\mathbb{C}P^N$. Models with odd integer $N$ and suitable potential can be parameterized by $N$-th complex scalar fields and they support…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Pawel Klimas , Nobuyuki Sawado , Shota Yanai

The empirical model of Lu et al. 2014a for the relation between star formation rate and halo mass growth is adopted to predict the classical bulge mass ($M_{\rm cb}$) - total stellar mass ($M_\star$) relation for central galaxies. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhankui Lu , H. J. Mo

We demonstrate a novel mechanism for producing dark compact objects and black holes through a dark sector, where all the dark matter can be dissipative. Heavy dark sector particles with masses above $10^4$ GeV can come to dominate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-29 Joseph Bramante , Christopher V. Cappiello , Melissa D. Diamond , J. Leo Kim , Qinrui Liu , Aaron C. Vincent

We investigate that the two types of the Q balls explain the baryon asymmetry and the dark matter of the universe in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. The gauge-mediation type Q balls of one flat direction produce baryon asymmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Shinta Kasuya , Masahiro Kawasaki

Affleck-Dine (AD) baryogenesis along a d=6 flat direction in gauge-mediated supersymmetry-breaking (GMSB) models can produce unstable Q-balls which naturally have field strength similar to the messenger scale. In this case a new kind of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Francesca Doddato , John McDonald

An analytical model predicting the growth rates, the absolute growth times and the saturation values of the magnetic field strength within galactic haloes is presented. The analytical results are compared to cosmological MHD simulations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander M. Beck , Harald Lesch , Klaus Dolag , Hanna Kotarba , Annette Geng , Federico A. Stasyszyn

Primordial black holes (PBHs) generated in the early Universe are considered as one of the candidates for dark matter. To produce PBHs with sufficient abundance, the primordial scalar power spectrum needs to be enhanced to the order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Zhongkai Wang , Shengqing Gao , Yungui Gong , Yue Wang

Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel class of transients recently discovered in a few extragalactic nuclei. It has been suggested that a QPE can be produced by a main-sequence star undergoing repeated partial disruptions by the tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Chunyang Cao , F. K. Liu , Xian Chen , Shuo Li

Recent observations indicate that the mass of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) correlate differently with different galaxy stellar components. Comparing such observations with the results of "ab initio" galaxy formation models can provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Nicola Menci , Fabrizio Fiore , Angela Bongiorno , Alessandra Lamastra

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) found in the centers of many galaxies have been recognized to play a fundamental active role in the cosmological structure formation process. In hierarchical formation scenarios, SMBHs are expected to form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Alberto Sesana , Loren Hoffman , Matthew Benacquista , Christoph Eichhorn , Junichiro Makino , Rainer Spurzem

Within the framework of general relativity, it can be shown that gravitational waves are radiated with the merger of massive compact objects. Such gravitational wave signals are observed on Earth on various detectors, in particular, on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 Alexander Libanov

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses in the range $100-10^{6}$ M$_{\odot}$, are the link between stellar-mass BHs and supermassive BHs (SMBHs). They are thought to be the seeds from which SMBHs grow, which would explain the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-30 Mar Mezcua

Recent observations of quasars powered by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) out to z > 7 constrain both the initial seed masses and the growth of the most massive black holes (BHs) in the early universe. Here we elucidate the implications of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jarrett L. Johnson , Daniel J. Whalen , Hui Li , Daniel E. Holz

We use rotation curve kinematics of 1000 spiral galaxies to investigate if these galaxies could host BH (Black Hole) remnants that once powered the QSO phenomenon. The rotation curves of both early and late-type spirals are used to place…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Salucci , Charu Ratnam , Pierluigi Monaco , Luigi Danese

Observed high-redshift QSOs, at z~6, may reside in massive dark matter (DM) halos of more than 10^{12} Msun and are thus expected to be surrounded by overdense regions. In a series of 10 constrained simulations, we have tested the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Emilio Romano-Diaz , Isaac Shlosman , Michele Trenti , Yehuda Hoffman