Speaker
Description
Recent observations of high-redshift luminous QSOs and faint AGN candidates, as well as the upcoming space-based gravitational wave experiments, motivate the development of detailed theoretical models which focus on the formation and evolution of massive black holes (MBHs). This talk will present recent results obtained with the L-GalaxiesBH (LGBH) semi-analytic model about the formation, evolution and dynamical interaction of MBHs. I will showcase the state-of-the art capabilities of LGBH by presenting its predictions for standard observables related to the evolution of MBHs (e.g. AGN luminosity function and MBH-Mstar correlations) as well as for ongoing and upcoming gravitational wave experiments (e.g. PTA collaborations and the LISA mission). In addition, I will focus on showing how LGBH can be used to study the cosmological evolution of light, intermediate-mass and heavy MBH-seeds, from their formation down to z=0. This will provide insights about the occurrence of these BH-seeding scenarios over cosmological scales, as well as the fate of their MBH descendants.
| Parallel session | Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems |
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