Co-Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galactic Nuclei

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Rainer Spurzem
• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2007 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 42513392

• Final Report Year: 2012

Final Report Abstract

The objectives of the project are to study the dynamical interaction between Supper Massive Black Holes (SMBH) and the surrounding stellar dynamical component in galaxy cores, and outside the region of influence of the Black Hole, by using of realistic N-body techniques. We study the cusp formation, disruption rates and loss-cone theory in time scales of relaxation, which allows us to understand the past, present and possible future evolution of galactic nuclei harboring SMBHs.

Publications

• 2007, Black Holes from Stars to Galaxies – Across the Range of Masses. Edited by V. Karas and G. Matt. Proceedings of IAU Symposium #238, held 21-25 August, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 363-364
  Fiestas J., Spurzem R.
  
• 2007, N-body models of rotating globular clusters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 377, 465
  Ernst, A., Glaschke, P., Fiestas, J., Just, A., Spurzem, R.
  
• 2008, Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 246, p. 166-170
  Fiestas J., Porth O., Spurzem R.
  
• 2008, The Cambridge N-Body Lectures 760, 377
  Spurzem, R., Berentzen, I., Berczik, P., Merritt, D., Amaro-Seoane, P., Harfst, S., Gualandris, A.
  
• 2009, Binary Black Hole Merger in Galactic Nuclei: Post-Newtonian Simulations, The Astrophysical Journal 695, 455
  Berentzen, I., Preto, M., Berczik, P., Merritt, D., Spurzem, R.
  
• 2009, Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies, Eso Astrophysics Symposia, Volume. ISBN 978-3-540-76960-6. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p. 399
  Fiestas J., Spurzem R.
  
• 2010, Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 267, p. 328
  Fiestas J. A., Spurzem R.
  
• 2010, Dynamical evolution of rotating dense stellar systems with embedded black holes, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 405, 194
  Fiestas, J., Spurzem, R.
  
• 2011, Fast Coalescence of Massive Black Hole Binaries from Mergers of Galactic Nuclei: Implications for Low-frequency Gravitational-wave Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal 732, L26
  Preto, M., Berentzen, I., Berczik, P., Spurzem, R.
  
• 2011: Astrophysical Particle Simulations with Large Custom GPU Clusters on Three Continents, 2011, Computer Science - Research and Development (CSRD), 26, pp. 145-151
  Spurzem, R.; Berczik, P.; Hamada, T.; Nitadori, K.; Marcus, G.; Kugel, A.; Maenner, R.; Berentzen, I.; Fiestas, J.; Banerjee R. & Klessen, R.
  
• Accelerated Many-Core GPU computing for physics and astrophysics on three continents, in special volume 2011, Large-Scale Computing Techniques for Complex System Simulations (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing), eds. Werner Dubitzky, Krzysztof Kurowski, Bernard Schott, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society
  Spurzem, R., Berczik, P., Berentzen, I., Ge, W., Wang, X., Schive, H.Y., Nitadori, K., Hamada, T., Fiestas J.
  
• 2012, Evolution of growing black holes in axisymmetric galaxy cores, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 419, 57
  Fiestas, J., Porth, O., Berczik, P., Spurzem, R.