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Laura Blecha
Researcher at University of Florida
Publications - 97
Citations - 3462
Laura Blecha is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Supermassive black hole. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 73 publications receiving 2693 citations. Previous affiliations of Laura Blecha include Harvard University & University of Maryland, College Park.
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The illustris simulation: Public data release
Dylan Nelson,Annalisa Pillepich,Shy Genel,Shy Genel,Mark Vogelsberger,Volker Springel,Volker Springel,Paul Torrey,Paul Torrey,Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez,Debora Sijacki,Gregory F. Snyder,Brendan F. Griffen,Federico Marinacci,Laura Blecha,Laura V. Sales,Dandan Xu,Lars Hernquist +17 more
TL;DR: The full public release of all data from the Illustris simulation project is presented, including the flagship Illustris-1 run, and a comprehensive, web-based API which allows programmatic access to search and data processing tasks is released.
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Growing supermassive black holes in the late stages of galaxy mergers are heavily obscured
Claudio Ricci,Claudio Ricci,Franz E. Bauer,Ezequiel Treister,Kevin Schawinski,George C. Privon,Laura Blecha,Patricia Arevalo,Lee Armus,Fiona A. Harrison,Luis C. Ho,Kazushi Iwasawa,D. B. Sanders,Daniel Stern +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied 52 galaxies in infrared-selected local luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies in different merger stages in the hard X-ray band, and found that the amount of material around SMBHs increased during the last phases of the merger.
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Massive Black Hole Binary Mergers in Dynamical Galactic Environments
TL;DR: This article used coevolved populations of MBH and galaxies from hydrodynamic, cosmological simulations ('Illustris') to calculate a predicted GWB, including all of the environmental mechanisms expected to be involved: dynamical friction, stellar 'loss-cone' scattering, and viscous drag from a circumbinary disk.
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Recoiling black holes in merging galaxies: relationship to active galactic nucleus lifetimes, starbursts and the MBH–σ* relation
TL;DR: In this paper, the trajectories and accretion of recoiling BHs in self-consistent, evolving merger remnants were analyzed using smoothed particle hydrodynamic/N-body simulations of gaseous galaxy mergers.
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Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M-sigma Relation
TL;DR: In this article, a suite of over 200 simulations with more than 60 merger models and a range of recoil velocities (vk) were generated to examine the co-evolution of supermassive black hole (SMBH) and their host galaxies.