Book Chapters
"Black hole-galaxy co-evolution and the role of feedback"
Pedro R. Capelo, Chiara Feruglio, Ryan C. Hickox and Francesco Tombesi
Invited chapter of the section 'Extragalactic sources: AGN in X-rays and gamma-rays' of the Handbook of X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, Springer Nature (2023) [ADS]
"Astrophysical black holes"
Pedro R. Capelo
Invited chapter of the review volume Formation of the First Black Holes, World Scientific (2019) [ADS]
ArXived Documents
"Wandering intermediate-mass black holes in Milky Way-sized galaxies in cosmological simulations: myth or reality?"
Floor van Donkelaar, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo and Tomas Tamfal
Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [ADS]
"LISA definition study report"
Monica Colpi et al.
ESA LISA red book [ADS]
Refereed Journal Articles
"Stellar cluster formation in a Milky Way-sized galaxy at z > 4 - II. A hybrid formation scenario for the nuclear star cluster and its connection to the nuclear stellar ring"
Floor van Donkelaar, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo, Tomas Tamfal, Thomas R. Quinn and Piero Madau
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529, 4104 (2024) [ADS]
"Direct formation of massive black holes via dynamical collapse in metal-enriched merging galaxies at z ~ 10: fully cosmological simulations"
Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo, Lorenz Zwick and Tiziana Di Matteo
The Astrophysical Journal, 961, 76 (2024) [ADS]
"Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna"
Pau Amaro Seoane et al.
Living Reviews in Relativity, 26, 2 (2023) [ADS]
"The fragility of thin discs in galaxies - II. Thin discs as tracers of the assembly history of galaxies"
Pablo M. Galán-de Anta, Pedro R. Capelo, Eugene Vasiliev, Massimo Dotti, Marc Sarzi, Enrico Maria Corsini and Lorenzo Morelli
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 3939 (2023) [ADS]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 6293 (2023) [ADS] (correction)
"Stellar cluster formation in a Milky Way-sized galaxy at z > 4 - I. The proto-globular cluster population and the imposter amongst us"
Floor van Donkelaar, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo, Tomas Tamfal, Thomas R. Quinn and Piero Madau
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522, 1726 (2023) [ADS]
"Priorities in gravitational waveform modelling for future space-borne detectors: vacuum accuracy or environment?"
Lorenz Zwick, Pedro R. Capelo and Lucio Mayer
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521, 4645 (2023) [ADS]
"The fragility of thin discs in galaxies - I. Building tailored N-body galaxy models"
Pablo M. Galán-de Anta, Eugene Vasiliev, Marc Sarzi, Massimo Dotti, Pedro R. Capelo, Andrea Incatasciato, Lorenzo Posti, Lorenzo Morelli and Enrico Maria Corsini
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520, 4490 (2023) [ADS]
"Super-critical accretion of medium-weight seed black holes in gaseous proto-galactic nuclei"
Federica Sassano, Pedro R. Capelo, Lucio Mayer, Raffaella Schneider and Rosa Valiante
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, 1837 (2023) [ADS]
"The imprint of gas on gravitational waves from LISA intermediate-mass black hole binaries"
Mudit Garg, Andrea Derdzinski, Lorenz Zwick, Pedro R. Capelo and Lucio Mayer
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517, 1339 (2022) [ADS]
"The role of bars on the dynamical-friction driven inspiral of massive perturbers"
Elisa Bortolas, Matteo Bonetti, Massimo Dotti, Alessandro Lupi, Pedro R. Capelo, Lucio Mayer and Alberto Sesana
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512, 3365 (2022) [ADS]
"Dirty waveforms: multiband harmonic content of gas-embedded gravitational wave sources"
Lorenz Zwick, Andrea Derdzinski, Mudit Garg, Pedro R. Capelo and Lucio Mayer
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511, 6143 (2022) [ADS]
"The dawn of disk formation in a Milky Way-sized galaxy: thin stellar disks at z > 4"
Tomas Tamfal, Lucio Mayer, Thomas R. Quinn, Arif Babul, Piero Madau, Pedro R. Capelo, Sijing Shen and Marius Staub
The Astrophysical Journal, 928, 106 (2022) [ADS]
"Revised event rates for extreme and extremely large mass-ratio inspirals"
Verónica Vázquez-Aceves, Lorenz Zwick, Elisa Bortolas, Pedro R. Capelo, Pau Amaro Seoane, Lucio Mayer and Xian Chen
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510, 2379 (2022) [ADS]
"The effect of mission duration on LISA science objectives"
Pau Amaro Seoane et al.
General Relativity and Gravitation, 54, 3 (2022) [ADS]
"Improved gravitational radiation time-scales II: spin-orbit contributions and environmental perturbations"
Lorenz Zwick, Pedro R. Capelo, Elisa Bortolas, Verónica Vázquez-Aceves, Lucio Mayer and Pau Amaro-Seoane
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506, 1007 (2021) [ADS]
"Light, medium-weight or heavy? The nature of the first supermassive black hole seeds"
Federica Sassano, Raffaella Schneider, Rosa Valiante, Kohei Inayoshi, Sunmyon Chon, Kazuyuki Omukai, Lucio Mayer and Pedro R. Capelo
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506, 613 (2021) [ADS]
"Revisiting dynamical friction: the role of global modes and local wakes"
Tomas Tamfal, Lucio Mayer, Thomas R. Quinn, Pedro R. Capelo, Stelios Kazantzidis, Arif Babul and Douglas Potter
The Astrophysical Journal, 916, 55 (2021) [ADS]
"Unveiling the gravitational Universe at μ-Hz frequencies"
Alberto Sesana et al., proposal to the European Space Agency Voyage 2050 Science Programme
Experimental Astronomy, 51, 1333 (2021) [ADS]
"Old and new major mergers in the SOSIMPLE galaxy, NGC 7135"
Thomas A. Davison, Harald Kuntschner, Bernd Husemann, Mark A. Norris, Julianne J. Dalcanton, Alessandra De Rosa, Pierre-Alain Duc, Stefano Bianchi, Pedro R. Capelo and Cristian Vignali
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502, 2296 (2021) [ADS]
"Non-isotropic feedback from accreting spinning black holes"
Luca Sala, Elia Cenci, Pedro R. Capelo, Alessandro Lupi and Massimo Dotti
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500, 4788 (2021) [ADS]
"Generation of gravitational waves and tidal disruptions in clumpy galaxies"
Boris Pestoni, Elisa Bortolas, Pedro R. Capelo and Lucio Mayer
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500, 4628 (2021) [ADS]
"Black hole spin evolution in warped accretion discs"
Elia Cenci, Luca Sala, Alessandro Lupi, Pedro R. Capelo and Massimo Dotti
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500, 3719 (2021) [ADS]
"Global torques and stochasticity as the drivers of massive black hole pairing in the young Universe"
Elisa Bortolas, Pedro R. Capelo, Tommaso Zana, Lucio Mayer, Matteo Bonetti, Massimo Dotti, Melvyn B. Davies and Piero Madau
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 498, 3601 (2020) [ADS]
"The erratic path to coalescence of LISA massive black hole binaries in subparsec-resolution simulations of smooth circumnuclear gas disks"
Rafael Souza Lima, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo, Elisa Bortolas and Thomas R. Quinn
The Astrophysical Journal, 899, 126 (2020) [ADS]
"Improved gravitational radiation time-scales: significance for LISA and LIGO-Virgo sources"
Lorenz Zwick, Pedro R. Capelo, Elisa Bortolas, Lucio Mayer and Pau Amaro-Seoane
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495, 2321 (2020) [ADS]
"Improved constraints from ultra-faint dwarf galaxies on primordial black holes as dark matter"
Jakob Stegmann, Pedro R. Capelo, Elisa Bortolas and Lucio Mayer
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492, 5247 (2020) [ADS]
"The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: a multi-messenger view"
Alessandra De Rosa, Cristian Vignali, Tamara Bogdanović, Pedro R. Capelo et al.
New Astronomy Reviews, 86, 101525 (2019) [ADS]
"Barred galaxies in cosmological zoom-in simulations: the importance of feedback"
Tommaso Zana, Pedro R. Capelo, Massimo Dotti, Lucio Mayer, Alessandro Lupi, Francesco Haardt, Silvia Bonoli and Sijing Shen
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488, 1864 (2019) [ADS]
"Tidal disruption event rates in galaxy merger remnants"
Hugo Pfister, Ben Bar-Or, Marta Volonteri, Yohan Dubois and Pedro R. Capelo
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 488, L29 (2019) [ADS]
"The lifetime of binary black holes in Sérsic galaxy models"
Nadia Biava, Monica Colpi, Pedro R. Capelo, Matteo Bonetti, Marta Volonteri, Tomas Tamfal, Lucio Mayer and Alberto Sesana
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487, 4985 (2019) [ADS]
"Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap"
Leor Barack et al., COST action GWverse roadmap
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36, 143001, (2019) [ADS]
"Dynamical evolution and merger time-scales of LISA massive black hole binaries in disk galaxy mergers"
Fazeel M. Khan, Pedro R. Capelo, Lucio Mayer and Peter Berczik
The Astrophysical Journal, 868, 97 (2018) [ADS]
"Bar resilience to flybys in a cosmological framework"
Tommaso Zana, Massimo Dotti, Pedro R. Capelo, Lucio Mayer, Francesco Haardt, Sijing Shen and Silvia Bonoli
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479, 5214 (2018) [ADS]
"Formation of LISA black hole binaries in merging dwarf galaxies: the imprint of dark matter"
Tomas Tamfal, Pedro R. Capelo, Stelios Kazantzidis, Lucio Mayer, Douglas Potter, Joachim Stadel and Lawrence M. Widrow
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 864, L19 (2018) [ADS]
"r-process nucleosynthesis in the early Universe through fast mergers of compact binaries in triple systems"
Matteo Bonetti, Albino Perego, Pedro R. Capelo, Massimo Dotti and M. Coleman Miller
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 35, E017 (2018) [ADS]
"The effect of non-equilibrium metal cooling on the interstellar medium"
Pedro R. Capelo, Stefano Bovino, Alessandro Lupi, Dominik R. G. Schleicher and Tommaso Grassi
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475, 3283 (2018) [ADS]
"The natural emergence of the correlation between H2 and star formation rate surface densities in galaxy simulations"
Alessandro Lupi, Stefano Bovino, Pedro R. Capelo, Marta Volonteri and Joseph Silk
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474, 2884 (2018) [ADS]
"External versus internal triggers of bar formation in cosmological zoom-in simulations"
Tommaso Zana, Massimo Dotti, Pedro R. Capelo, Silvia Bonoli, Francesco Haardt, Lucio Mayer and Daniele Spinoso
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473, 2608 (2018) [ADS]
"The birth of a supermassive black hole binary"
Hugo Pfister, Alessandro Lupi, Pedro R. Capelo, Marta Volonteri, Jillian M. Bellovary and Massimo Dotti
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471, 3646 (2017) [ADS]
"A survey of dual active galactic nuclei in simulations of galaxy mergers: frequency and properties"
Pedro R. Capelo, Massimo Dotti, Marta Volonteri, Lucio Mayer, Jillian M. Bellovary and Sijing Shen
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469, 4437 (2017) [ADS]
"Shocks and angular momentum flips: a different path to feeding the nuclear regions of merging galaxies"
Pedro R. Capelo and Massimo Dotti
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465, 2643 (2017) [ADS]
"The pairing of accreting massive black holes in multiphase circumnuclear disks: the interplay between radiative cooling, star formation, and feedback processes"
Rafael Souza Lima, Lucio Mayer, Pedro R. Capelo and Jillian M. Bellovary
The Astrophysical Journal, 838, 13 (2017) [ADS]
"Galactic angular momentum in cosmological zoom-in simulations. I. Disk and bulge components and the galaxy-halo connection"
Aleksandra Sokołowska, Pedro R. Capelo, S. Michael Fall, Lucio Mayer, Sijing Shen and Silvia Bonoli
The Astrophysical Journal, 835, 289 (2017) [ADS]
"Supermassive black hole pairs in clumpy galaxies at high redshift: delayed binary formation and concurrent mass growth"
Valentina Tamburello, Pedro R. Capelo, Lucio Mayer, Jillian M. Bellovary and James W. Wadsley
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464, 2952 (2017) [ADS]
"A comparison of black hole growth in galaxy mergers with GASOLINE and RAMSES"
Jared M. Gabor, Pedro R. Capelo, Marta Volonteri, Frédéric Bournaud, Jillian M. Bellovary, Fabio Governato and Thomas R. Quinn
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 592, A62 (2016) [ADS]
"A chemical model for the interstellar medium in galaxies"
Stefano Bovino, Tommaso Grassi, Pedro R. Capelo, Dominik R. G. Schleicher and Robi Banerjee
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 590, A15 (2016) [ADS]
"Black hole accretion versus star formation rate: theory confronts observations"
Marta Volonteri, Pedro R. Capelo, Hagai Netzer, Jillian M. Bellovary, Massimo Dotti and Fabio Governato
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 452, L6 (2015) [ADS]
"Growing black holes and galaxies: black hole accretion versus star formation rate"
Marta Volonteri, Pedro R. Capelo, Hagai Netzer, Jillian M. Bellovary, Massimo Dotti and Fabio Governato
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449, 1470 (2015) [ADS]
"Growth and activity of black holes in galaxy mergers with varying mass ratios"
Pedro R. Capelo, Marta Volonteri, Massimo Dotti, Jillian M. Bellovary, Lucio Mayer and Fabio Governato
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447, 2123 (2015) [ADS]
"Nuclear coups: dynamics of black holes in galaxy mergers"
Sandor Van Wassenhove, Pedro R. Capelo, Marta Volonteri, Massimo Dotti, Jillian M. Bellovary, Lucio Mayer and Fabio Governato
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439, 474 (2014) [ADS]
"The polytropic approximation and X-ray scaling relations: constraints on gas and dark matter profiles for galaxy groups and clusters"
Pedro R. Capelo, Paolo S. Coppi and Priyamvada Natarajan
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 422, 686 (2012) [ADS]
"Hydrostatic equilibrium profiles for gas in elliptical galaxies"
Pedro R. Capelo, Priyamvada Natarajan and Paolo S. Coppi
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 407, 1148 (2010) [ADS]
"How robust are the constraints on cosmology and galaxy evolution from the lens-redshift test?"
Pedro R. Capelo and Priyamvada Natarajan
New Journal of Physics, 9, 445 (2007) [ADS]