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List of works by Marta Volonteri

A catalogue of galaxies in the HDF-South: Photometry and structural parameters

scientific article

A survey of dual active galactic nuclei in simulations of galaxy mergers: frequency and properties

scientific article published in January 2017

AGN feedback compared: jets versus radiation

scientific article

Active galactic nuclei vs. host galaxy properties in the COSMOS field

scientific article published in January 2017

Active galactic nucleus outflows in galaxy discs

scientific article

Assessing inflow rates in atomic cooling haloes: implications for direct collapse black holes

scientific article published in January 2015

Assessing the redshift evolution of massive black holes and their hosts

scholarly article by Marta Volonteri & Stark D. P. published 2011 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Black hole accretion versus star formation rate: theory confronts observations

scientific article published in January 2015

Black hole evolution – I. Supernova-regulated black hole growth

scholarly article by Yohan Dubois et al published 14 July 2015 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Black hole evolution – II. Spinning black holes in a supernova-driven turbulent interstellar medium

scholarly article by Yohan Dubois et al published 31 March 2014 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Black hole evolution – III. Statistical properties of mass growth and spin evolution using large-scale hydrodynamical cosmological simulations

scholarly article by Yohan Dubois et al published 22 March 2014 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Black hole feeding and feedback: the physics inside the 'sub-grid'

scientific article published in January 2017

Black hole formation and growth with non-Gaussian primordial density perturbations

scholarly article by Habouzit M. et al published 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Black hole growth in the early Universe is self-regulated and largely hidden from view

scientific article published on 15 June 2011

Black hole obscuration and duty-cycles mediated by AGN feedback in high-redshift galaxies

scientific article published in January 2019

Black hole spin and galactic morphology

scientific article published in January 2007

Black holes in the early Universe

scientific article published on 26 October 2012

Blazars in the early Universe

scientific article

Blindly detecting merging supermassive black holes with radio surveys

scholarly article by D. L. Kaplan et al published 1 June 2011 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Blossoms from black hole seeds: properties and early growth regulated by supernova feedback

scientific article published in January 2017

Chasing the heaviest black holes of jetted active galactic nuclei

scholarly article by Gabriele Ghisellini et al published March 2010 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Chasing the observational signatures of seed black holes at z > 7: candidate observability

scholarly article by Rosa Valiante et al published 29 January 2018 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Compact massive objects in Virgo galaxies: the black hole population

scholarly article by Marta Volonteri et al published 2008 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Comparison of black hole growth in galaxy mergers with gasoline and ramses

scientific article published in January 2016

Conditions for Optimal Growth of Black Hole Seeds

scholarly article by Fabio Pacucci et al published 1 December 2017 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Constraining supermassive black hole evolution through the continuity equation

scientific article published in January 2017

Constraining the high-redshift formation of black hole seeds in nuclear star clusters with gas inflows

scientific article published in January 2014

Constraining the spin of the black hole in Fairall 9 with Suzaku

scholarly article by S. Schmoll et al published 17 September 2009 in The Astrophysical Journal

Constraints on the accretion history of massive black holes from faint X-ray counts

scholarly article by M. Volonteri et al published 21 November 2006 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Corrigendum: Black hole growth in the early Universe is self-regulated and largely hidden from view

scientific article published in Nature

Cosmic evolution of stellar quenching by AGN feedback: clues from the Horizon-AGN simulation

scientific article

Cosmography with strong lensing of LISA gravitational wave sources

scientific article published in January 2011

Cosmological black hole spin evolution by mergers and accretion

scientific article published in January 2008

Dancing in the dark: galactic properties trace spin swings along the cosmic web

scientific article

Deep Chandra Observations of ESO 428-G014. IV. The Morphology of the Nuclear Region in the Hard Continuum and Fe Kα Line

Density profile of dark matter haloes and galaxies in the horizon–agn simulation: the impact of AGN feedback

scientific article

Double quasars: probes of black hole scaling relationships and merger scenarios

scholarly article by Foreman G. et al published 2009 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Dual AGN in the Horizon-AGN simulation and their link to galaxy and massive black hole mergers, with an excursus on multiple AGN

scientific article published on 5 May 2022

Dual black holes in merger remnants - I. Linking accretion to dynamics

scientific article published in January 2009

Dual black holes in merger remnants - II. Spin evolution and gravitational recoil

scientific article published in January 2010

Dynamical evolution of intermediate-mass black holes and their observable signatures in the nearby Universe

scientific article published in January 2005

Early reionization by miniquasars

scholarly article

Effects of circumnuclear disk gas evolution on the spin of central black holes

scientific article published in January 2013

Erratum: “Wandering Supermassive Black Holes in Milky-Way-mass Halos” (2018, ApJL, 857, L22)

erratum

Escape of ionizing radiation from high-redshift dwarf galaxies: role of AGN feedback

scientific article

Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes

conference paper

Expanding the sample: the relationship between the black hole mass of BCGs and the total mass of galaxy clusters

scientific article published in January 2019

Exploring the nature of the Lyman-{alpha} emitter CR7

scientific article

Feedback from reorienting AGN jets. I. Jet-ICM coupling, cavity properties and global energetics

scientific article published in January 2018

Formation of supermassive black holes

scientific article published in January 2010

Formation of supermassive black holes by direct collapse in pre-galactic haloes

scholarly article by M. C. Begelman et al published 21 July 2006 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Formation of the first nuclear clusters and massive black holes at high redshift

scholarly article by Devecchi B. & Marta Volonteri published 2009 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

From the first stars to the first black holes

scientific article published in January 2016

Gravitational recoil: effects on massive black hole occupation fraction over cosmic time

scholarly article

Gravitational recoil: signatures on the massive black hole population

scholarly article by Marta Volonteri published 2007 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Gravitational waves from resolvable massive black hole binary systems and observations with pulsar timing arrays

scholarly article by Sesana A. et al published 2009 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Gravitational waves from the remnants of the first stars

scientific article published in January 2016

Growing black holes and galaxies: black hole accretion versus star formation rate

scientific article published in January 2015

Growth and activity of black holes in galaxy mergers with varying mass ratios

scientific article published in January 2015

High-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Fields: the obscured fraction and space density of the sub-L* population

scholarly article

High-redshift Fermi blazars

scientific article

High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects - II. The census of BH seeds

scientific article published in January 2012

High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects -- I. Model description

scientific article published in January 2010

High-redshift galaxies and black holes detectable with the JWST: a population synthesis model from infrared to X-rays

scientific article published in January 2017

How AGN and SN feedback affect mass transport and black hole growth in high-redshift galaxies

scientific article published in January 2017

How an improved implementation of H2 self-shielding influences the formation of massive stars and black holes

scientific article published in January 2015

How important is the dark matter halo for black hole growth?

scholarly article by Marta Volonteri et al published 2011 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

How to quench a galaxy

scientific article

Hyperaccreting black holes in galactic nuclei

scientific article published in January 2017

Impact of dust cooling on direct-collapse black hole formation

scholarly article by Latif M. A. et al published 2016 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Implications of primordial black holes on the first stars and the origin of the super-massive black holes

scholarly article by Bambi C. et al published 2009 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Imprints of recoiling massive black holes on the hot gas of early-type galaxies

scientific article published in January 2009

Inferences on the relations between central black hole mass and total galaxy stellar mass in the high-redshift universe

scientific article published in January 2016

Intermediate-mass black holes in dwarf galaxies out to redshift ~2.4 in the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy Survey

scientific article published in January 2018

Interpreting the optical data of the Hubble Deep Field South: colors, morphological number counts and photometric redshifts

scientific article published in January 2000

Introducing romulusc: a cosmological simulation of a galaxy cluster with an unprecedented resolution

scholarly article

Journey to the M_BH_-{sigma} relation: the fate of low-mass black holes in the universe

scientific article published in January 2009

Limits on the high redshift growth of massive black holes

scholarly article by Ruben Salvaterra et al published September 2012 in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Low-frequency gravitational radiation from coalescing massive black hole binaries in hierarchical cosmologies

scholarly article by Sesana A. et al published 2004 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Low-frequency gravitational-wave science with eLISA/NGO

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

Making black holes from scratch

scientific article published in Nature

Mass and spin co-evolution during the alignment of a black hole in a warped accretion disc

scientific article published in January 2009

Massive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies

Massive black holes and their hosts

scholarly article

Massive black holes in central cluster galaxies

scientific article published in January 2013

Massive black holes in stellar systems: "Quiescent" accretion and luminosity

scientific article published in January 2011

Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites

scholarly article by S. Van Wassenhove et al published 18 August 2010 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Massive black holes: formation and evolution

scholarly article by Martin J. Rees & Marta Volonteri published August 2006 in Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

Modelling active galactic nuclei: ongoing problems for the faint-end of the luminosity function

scientific article published in January 2007

Modelling the quasi-stellar object luminosity and spatial clustering at low redshifts

scientific article published in January 2006

New insights on the recoiling/binary black hole candidate J0927+2943 via molecular gas observations

scholarly article by R. Decarli et al published 9 October 2014 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

New observational constraints on the growth of the first supermassive black holes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Normal black holes in bulge-less galaxies: the largely quiescent, merger-free growth of black holes over cosmic time

scholarly article by Garreth Martin et al published 9 February 2018 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Nuclear coups: dynamics of black holes in galaxy mergers

scientific article published in January 2014

Number counts and colors of galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field South

scientific article published in January 2001

Observability of dual active galactic nuclei in merging galaxies

scientific article published in January 2012

Off the beaten path: a new approach to realistically model the orbital decay of supermassive black holes in galaxy formation simulations

scientific article published in January 2015

Off-Nuclear AGNs as a Signature of Recoiling Massive Black Holes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On the Accretion Rates and Radiative Efficiencies of the Highest-redshift Quasars

scientific article

On the dynamical formation of accreting intermediate mass black holes

scientific article published in January 2007

On the number density of 'direct collapse' black hole seeds

scientific article published in January 2016

On the orientation and magnitude of the black hole spin in galactic nuclei

scientific article published in January 2013

Population estimates for electromagnetically distinguishable supermassive binary black holes

scholarly article by Krolik J. H. et al published 2019 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Preferential accretion in the supermassive black holes of Milky Way-size galaxies due to direct feeding by satellites

scholarly article by Sanchez N. N. et al published 2018 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Quasars at z=6: the survival of the fittest

scientific article published in January 2006

Quasi-stars and the cosmic evolution of massive black holes

scientific article published in January 2010

Rapid growth of high-redshift black holes

scientific article published in January 2005

Recoiling supermassive black hole escape velocities from dark matter haloes

scientific article published in January 2017

Relations between central black hole mass and total galaxy stellar mass in the local universe

scholarly article by Reines A. E. & Marta Volonteri published 2015 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

Relative role of stars and quasars in cosmic reionization

scientific article published in January 2009

SDSSJ092712.65+294344.0: a candidate massive black hole binary

scientific article published in January 2009

Shining in the dark: the spectral evolution of the first black holes

scholarly article by Pacucci F. et al published 2015 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Simplified galaxy formation with mesh-less hydrodynamics

scientific article

Strong lensing of gravitational waves as seen by LISA

scientific article published on 13 December 2010

Sub-parsec supermassive binary quasars: expectations at z < 1

scientific article published in January 2009

Super-Eddington accretion and feedback from the first massive seed black holes

scholarly article by John A Regan et al published 18 April 2019 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The Assembly and Merging History of Supermassive Black Holes in Hierarchical Models of Galaxy Formation

scientific article (publication date: 10 January 2003)

The Chandra COSMOS survey. I. Overview and point source catalog

article

The Chandra deep protocluster survey: Ly{alpha} blobs are powered by heating, not cooling

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Chandra deep protocluster survey: evidence for an enhancement of AGN activity in the SSA22 protocluster at z = 3.09

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes

scientific article published on August 3, 2012

The Horizon-AGN simulation: morphological diversity of galaxies promoted by AGN feedback

scientific article

The Multiwavelength AGN Population and the X-ray Background

scientific article

The ROMULUS cosmological simulations: a physical approach to the formation, dynamics and accretion models of SMBHs

scientific article published in January 2017

The Star Clusters That Make Black Hole Binaries across Cosmic Time

scholarly article by Nick Choksi et al published 7 March 2019 in The Astrophysical Journal

The birth of a supermassive black hole binary

scientific article published in January 2017

The blazar S5 0014+813: a real or apparent monster?

scientific article

The case for supercritical accretion onto massive black holes at high redshift

scholarly article by Marta Volonteri et al published 2015 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

The cosmic evolution of massive black holes in the Horizon-AGN simulation

scholarly article by M. Volonteri et al published 12 May 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The distribution and cosmic evolution of massive black hole spins

scientific article published in January 2005

The effect of AGN feedback on the migration time-scale of supermassive black holes binaries

scientific article published in January 2018

The erratic dynamical life of black hole seeds in high-redshift galaxies

scholarly article by Hugo Pfister et al published 20 March 2019 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The evolution of active galactic nuclei and their spins

scientific article published in January 2013

The evolution of massive black hole seeds

scholarly article by Marta Volonteri et al published 2008 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The first massive black hole seeds and their hosts

scientific article published in January 2011

The first supermassive black holes: indications from models for future observations

scholarly article by Stergios Amarantidis et al published 26 February 2019 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The formation of galaxy stellar cores by the hierarchical merging of supermassive black holes

scholarly article by Marta Volonteri et al published 2003 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

The gravitational wave signal from massive black hole binaries and its contribution to the LISA data stream

scholarly article by Sesana A. et al published 2005 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

The growth efficiency of high-redshift black holes

scientific article published in January 2015

The hierarchical assembly of galaxies and black holes in the first billion years: predictions for the era of gravitational wave astronomy

scholarly article by Pratika Dayal et al published 27 March 2019 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The importance of dry and wet merging on the formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies

scientific article published in January 2007

The imprint of massive black hole formation models on the LISA data stream

scientific article published in January 2007

The lifetime of binary black holes in Sersic galaxy models

scientific article published in January 2019

The mass function of black holes 1<z<4.5: comparison of models with observations

scientific article published in January 2012

The origins of massive black holes

The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view

scientific article published in December 2019

The relative role of galaxy mergers and cosmic flows in feeding black holes

scientific article published in January 2013

The role of relativistic jets in the heaviest and most active supermassive black holes at high redshift

scholarly article by Gabriele Ghisellini et al published 1 May 2013 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The spin of the supermassive black hole in NGC 3783

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The sustainable growth of the first black holes

scholarly article

Unresolved X-ray background: clues on galactic nuclear activity at z > 6

scholarly article

Wandering black holes in bright disk galaxy halos

scientific article published in January 2010

Wandering supermassive black holes in Milky-Way-mass halos

scholarly article by Tremmel M. et al published 2018 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal