Journal article
Supermassive black hole pairs in clumpy galaxies at high redshift: delayed binary formation and concurrent mass growth
Abstract
Massive gas-rich galaxy discs at z ∼ 1–3 host massive star-forming clumps with typical baryonic masses in the range 107–108 M⊙ which can affect the orbital decay and concurrent growth of supermassive black hole (BH) pairs. Using a set of high-resolution simulations of isolated clumpy galaxies hosting a pair of unequal-mass BHs, we study the interaction between massive clumps and a BH pair at kiloparsec scales, during the early phase of the …
Authors
Tamburello V; Capelo PR; Mayer L; Bellovary JM; Wadsley JW
Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 464, No. 3, pp. 2952–2962
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
January 21, 2017
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stw2561
ISSN
0035-8711