The black hole population in low-mass galaxies in large-scale cosmological simulations

@article{Haidar2022TheBH,
  title={The black hole population in low-mass galaxies in large-scale cosmological simulations},
  author={Houda Haidar and M'elanie Habouzit and Marta Volonteri and Mar Mezcua and Jenny E. Greene and Nadine Neumayer and Daniel Angl'es-Alc'azar and Ignacio Mart{\'i}n-Navarro and Nils Hoyer and Yohan Dubois and Romeel Dav'e},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2022}
}
Recent systematic searches for massive black holes (BHs) in local dwarf galaxies led to the discovery of a population of faint Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We investigate the agreement of the BH and AGN populations in the Illustris, TNG, Horizon-AGN, EAGLE, and SIMBA simulations with current observational constraints in low-mass galaxies. We find that some of these simulations produce BHs that are too massive, and that the BH occupation fraction at z = 0 is not inherited from the simulation… 
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