Publications

The Role of Gravitational Recoil in the Assembly of Massive Black Hole Seeds

Published in The Astrophysical Journal, 2020

Massive black hole mergers release linear and angular momentum in the form of gravitational waves in a preferred direction due to asymmetries in the binary system. This release imparts a gravitational recoil kick to the merged system, which can reach up to thousands of kilometers per second. We study the role of gravitational recoil in the assembly of massive black hole seeds in the first billion years of the Universe.

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Sowing Black Hole Seeds: Direct Collapse Black Hole Formation with Realistic Lyman–Werner Radiation in Cosmological Simulations

Published in The Astrophysical Journal, 2018

We study the demographics of direct collapse massive black hole seed formation sites in the context of a cosmological SPH+N-body simulation with self-consistent, time-dependent, non-uniform Lyman-Werner radiation.

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Glenna Dunn

Publications

The Role of Gravitational Recoil in the Assembly of Massive Black Hole Seeds

Sowing Black Hole Seeds: Direct Collapse Black Hole Formation with Realistic Lyman–Werner Radiation in Cosmological Simulations