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Super-massive black hole binaries in gas-rich environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2013

Jorge Cuadra
Jorge Cuadra*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile email: jcuadra@astro.puc.cl
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Abstract

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Black hole binaries form after major galaxy mergers, but their fate is unclear as hardening due to stars gets inefficient at sub-parsec distances. We model an alternative scenario in which the merger is driven by the interaction of the binary with the surrounding gas.†

Keywords

black hole physics
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S295: The intriguing life of massive galaxies , August 2012 , pp. 265
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

References

Cuadra, J., Armitage, P. J., Alexander, R. D., & Begelman, M. 2009, MNRAS, 393, 1423Google Scholar
Roedig, C., Dotti, M., Sesana, A., Cuadra, J., & Colpi, M. 2011, MNRAS, 415, 3033CrossRefGoogle Scholar