B Massive

The scientific output of the B Massive project is collected in a list of publications in refereed international journals. Here is a list of the most relevant ones, since the project started in Summer 2019.

• Dotti, M, Bonetti, M., Rigamonti, F., Bortolas, E.,  ...., Franchini, A.,Sesana, A., (2023) Optical follow-up of the tick-tock massive black hole binary candidate, MNRAS, in press.

• Broggi, L., Bortolas, E., Bonetti, M., Sesana, A., Dotti, M., (2022) Extreme mass ratio inspirals and tidal disruption events in nuclear clusters - I. Time-dependent rates, MNRAS 514, 3270.

• Bortolas, E., Bonetti, M., Dotti, M.,;Lupi, A., Capelo, P.R., Mayer, L., Sesana, A., (2022) The role of bars on the dynamical-friction-driven inspiral of massive objects, MNRAS 512, 3365.

• Gualandris, A., Khan, F.M., Bortolas, E., Bonetti, M., Sesana, A., et al., (2022) Eccentricity evolution of massive black hole binaries from formation to coalescence, MNRAS 511, 4753.

• Bortolas, E., (2022) Tidal disruption events in post-starburst galaxies: the importance of a complete stellar mass function, MNRAS  511, 288.

• Vázquez-Aceves, V., Zwick, L., Bortolas, E., et al., (2022) Revised event rates for extreme and extremely large mass-ratio inspirals, MNRAS 510, 2379.

• Antoniadis, J., ... Bonetti, M., ... Chalumeau, A., ... Samajdar, A., ... Sesana, A., Shaifullah, G., ... et al. (2022), The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background, MNRAS, 510, 4873.

• Chalumeau, A., ... Samajdar, A., ... Shaifullah, G., ... Sesana, A. et al. (2022), Noise analysis in the European Pulsar Timing Array data release 2 and its implications on the gravitational-wave background search, MNRAS, 509, 5538.

• Wang, J., Shaifullah, G. M., et al. (2022), A comparative analysis of pulse time-of-arrival creation methods, A&A, 658, A181.

• Chen, S., ... Shaifullah, G., ... Samajdar, A., ... Sesana, A. et al. (2021), Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search, MNRAS, 508, 4970.

• Franchini, A., Lupi, A., Sesana, A., Resolving Massive black hole binaries evolution via adaptive particle splitting  ApJL, 929, L13 

• Franchini, A., Sesana, A., Dotti, M., Circumbinary disc self-gravity governing massive black hole binary mergers MNRAS, 507, 1458

• Muttoni, N., Mangiagli, A., Sesana, A., Laghi, D., Del Pozzo, W., Izquierdo-Villalba, D., Rosati, M., Multiband gravitational wave cosmology with stellar origin black hole binaries  PhRvD, 105, 3509

• Laghi, D., Tamanini, N., Del Pozzo, W., Sesana, A., Gair, J., Babak, S., Izquierdo-Villalba, D.,  Gravitational-wave cosmology with extreme mass-ratio inspirals 2022, MNRAS 508, 4512

• Izquierdo-Villalba, D., Sesana, A.,  Bonoli, S., Colpi, M., Massive black hole evolution models confronting the n-Hz amplitude of the stochastic gravitational wave background, 2022, MNRAS 509, 3488

• Varisco, L., Bortolas, E., Dotti, M., Sesana, A., Stellar hardening of massive black hole binaries: the impact of the host rotation, 2021, MNRAS 508, 1533

• Bortolas, E., Franchini, A., Bonetti, M., Sesana, A., The Competing Effect of Gas and Stars in the Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries, 2021, ApJL, 918, 15

• Zwick, L., Capelo, P.R., Bortolas, E., Vázquez-Aceves, V., Mayer, L., Amaro-Seoane, P., Improved gravitational radiation time-scales II: Spin-orbit contributions and environmental perturbations, MNRAS, 2021, 506, 1007

• Bonetti M., Bortolas E., Lupi A., Dotti M., Dynamical evolution of massive perturbers in realistic multi-component galaxy models I: implementation and validation, 2021, MNRAS, 502, 3554

• Pestoni B., Bortolas E., Capelo P.R., Mayer L., Generation of gravitational waves and tidal disruptions in clumpy galaxies, 2021, MNRAS 500, 4628

•  Valiante R., ..., Sesana A., Unveiling early black hole growth with multifrequency gravitational wave observations, 2021, MNRAS, 500, 4095 

• Bonetti M., Sesana A., Gravitational wave background from extreme mass ratio inspirals, 2021, PRD, 102, 103023

• Middleton H., Sesana A. et al., Massive black hole binary systems and the NANOGrav 12.5 year results, 2021, MNRAS Letter in press, arXiv:201101246

• Taylor S., van Haasteren R., Sesana A., From bright binaries to bumpy backgrounds: Mapping realistic gravitational wave skies with pulsar-timing arrays, 2020, PRD, 102, 084039

• Serafinelli R., ..., Sesana A. et al., Unveiling Sub-pc Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates in Active Galactic Nuclei , 2020, ApJ, 902, 10

• Nguyen, K., ..., Sesana A. et al., Pulsar Timing Array Constraints on the Merger Timescale of Subparsec Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates, 2020, ApJ, 900, L42 

• Izquierdo-Villalba D., Bonoli S., Dotti M., Sesana A. et al., From galactic nuclei to the halo outskirts: tracing supermassive black holes across cosmic history and environments, 2020, MNRAS, 495, 4681 

• Bonetti M., Rasskazov A., Sesana A. et al., On the eccentricity evolution of massive black hole binaries in stellar backgrounds, 2020, MNRAS, 493, L114

• McGee S., Sesana A., Vecchio A., Linking gravitational waves and X-ray phenomena with joint LISA and Athena observations, 2020, Nature Astronomy, 4, 26

• De Rosa A., ..., Sesana A. et al., The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view, 2019, NAR, 86, 101525

• Perera B.B.P., ..., Sesana A., Shaifullah G., et al., The International Pulsar Timing Array: second data release, 2019, MNRAS, 490, 4666

• Del Canton T., ..., Sesana A. et al., Detectability of Modulated X-Rays from LISA’s Supermassive Black Hole Mergers, 2019, ApJ, 886, 146

• Thorp I., Chadwick E., Sesana A., Tidal disruption events from massive black hole binaries: predictions for ongoing and future surveys, 2019, MNRAS, 488, 4042

• Chen S., Sesana A., Conselice C., Constraining astrophysical observables of galaxy and supermassive black hole binary mergers using pulsar timing arrays, 2019, MNRAS, 488, 401