Andrea Merloni

A synthesis model for AGN evolution: supermassive black holes growth and feedback modes (2008)

The growth of supermassive black holes (SMBH) through accretion is accompanied by the release of enormous amounts of energy which can either be radiated away, as happens in quasars, advected into the...

A synthesis model for AGN evolution: supermassive black holes growth and feedback modes (2008)

We present a comprehensive synthesis model for the AGN evolution and the growth of supermassive black holes in the Universe. We solve the continuity equation for SMBH mass function using the locally...

On the Equation of State of White Dwarfs: the Mass-Radius Relation (2007)

Andrea Merloni, Remo Ruffini

INTRODUCTION The recent observations of binary pulsars [1] are most remarkable for their unprecedented accuracy in determining neutron star masses. The fact that these masses are very close to the...

Measuring the kinetic power of AGN in the radio mode (2007)

Models for the X-ray spectra and variability of luminous accreting black holes (2007)

(Abridged) We have studied the relationship among nuclear radio and X-ray power, Bondi rate and the kinetic luminosity of sub-Eddington active galactic nuclear (AGN) jets. Besides the recently...

Malzac, Julien, Merloni, Andrea, Suebsuwong, Thitiwat

The X-ray spectra of luminous Seyfert 1 galaxies often appear to be reflection dominated. In a number of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies and galactic black holes in the very high state, the...

The kinetic luminosity function and the jet production efficiency of growing black holes (2007)

Heinz, Sebastian, Merloni, Andrea, Schwab, Josiah

We derive the kinetic luminosity function for flat spectrum radio jets, using the empirical and theoretical scaling relation between jet power and radio core luminosity. The normalization for this...

Why the fundamental plane of black hole activity is not a distance artifact? (2007)

Heinz, Sebastian, Merloni, Andrea, Di Matteo, Tiziana

Cosmological evolution of the AGN kinetic luminosity function (2007)

Measuring the kinetic power of active galactic nuclei in the radio mode (2007)

Why the Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Activity is not a Distance Artifact (2007)

Andrea Merloni, Sebastian Heinz, Tiziana Di Matteo

The fundamental plane of black hole activity is a non-linear correlation among radio core luminosity, X-ray luminosity and mass of all accreting black holes, both of stellar mass and supermassive,...

Models for the X-ray spectra and variability of luminous accreting black holes (2006)

Malzac, Julien, Merloni, Andrea, Suebsuwong, Thitiwat

The X-ray spectra of luminous Seyfert 1 galaxies often appear to be reflection dominated. In a number of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies and galactic black holes in the very high state, the...

On the limit-cycle instability in magnetized accretion discs (2006)

Merloni, Andrea, Nayakshin, Sergei

A fundamental plane of black hole activity: pushing forward the unification scheme (2005)

Merloni, Andrea, Heinz, Sebastian, Di Matteo, Tiziana

Jet-disc coupling in the accreting black hole Xte J1118+480 (2005)

On the relationship between the jets from X-ray binaries and Agn (2005)

Heinz, Sebastian, Merloni, Andrea, Di Matteo, Tiziana, Sunyaev, Rashid

Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 21-25 June 2004 (2005)

Merloni, Andrea .

Jet-Disc coupling in the accreting black hole XTEJ1118+480 (2004)

A fundamental plane of black hole activity: pushing forward the unification scheme (2004)

We interpret the rapid correlated UV/optical/ X-ray variability of XTEJ1118+480 as a signature of the coupling between the X-ray corona and a jet emitting synchrotron radiation in the optical band.We...

Merloni, Andrea, Heinz, Sebastian, Di Matteo, Tiziana

We examine the disc--jet connection in stellar mass and supermassive black holes by investigating the properties of their compact emission in the hard X-ray and radio bands. We compile a sample of...

Tracing the cosmological assembly of stars and supermassive black holes in galaxies (2004)

Merloni, Andrea, Rudnick, Gregory, Di Matteo, Tiziana

We examine possible phenomenological constraints for the joint evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBH) and their host spheroids. We compare all the available observational data on the redshift...

Anti-Hierarchical Growth of Supermassive Black Holes and QSO lifetimes (2004)

MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference: Growing Black Holes - Accretion in a Cosmological Context (2004)

I present a new method to unveil the history of cosmic accretion and the build-up of Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) in the nuclei of galaxies, based on observations of the evolving radio and (hard)...

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Jet-disc coupling through a common energy reservoir in the black hole XTE J1118+480 (2004)

The anti-hierarchical growth of supermassive black holes (2004)

We interpret the rapid correlated UV/optical/ X-ray variability of XTE J1118+480 as a signature of the coupling between the X-ray corona and a jet emitting synchrotron radiation in the optical band....

The fundamental plane of black hole activity and the census of the local black holes' population (2004)

I present a new method to unveil the history of cosmic accretion and the build-up of SMBH in the nuclei of galaxies, based on observations of the evolving radio and (hard) X-ray luminosity functions...

Jet-disc coupling through a common energy reservoir in the black hole XTE J1118+480 (2004)

Studying a sample of both strongly and weakly active galactic nuclei with measured masses and 5 GHz and 2-10 keV core luminosities, together with a few galactic black holes simultaneously observed in...

The anti-hierarchical growth of supermassive black holes (2004)

Tracing the cosmological assembly of stars and supermassive black holes in galaxies (2004)

Merloni, Andrea, Rudnick, Gregory, Di Matteo, Tiziana

The fundamental plane of black hole activity and the census of the local black holes' population (2004)

Report on the joint MPA/MPE/ESO/USM workshop on growing black holes: accretion in a cosmological context (2004)

Merloni, Andrea, Nayakshin, Sergei

A fundamental plane of black hole activity (2003)

Merloni, Andrea, Heinz, Sebastian, Di Matteo, Tiziana

We examine the disc--jet connection in stellar mass and supermassive black holes by investigating the properties of their compact emission in the X-ray and radio bands. We compile a sample of ~100...

Microquasars in the low/hard state: strong coranae, compact jets, and the high frequency variabilty (2003)