Fabio Governato

University of Washington — United States

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena(120), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research(100), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies(61), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories(39), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies(27)

Publications175 total

Erratum: “Wandering Supermassive Black Holes in Milky-Way-mass Halos” (2018, ApJL, 857, L22)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters·2021Open Access
Dancing to ChaNGa: The Formation of Close Pairs of Supermassive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations and Implications for LISA
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233·2019
Preferential Accretion in the Supermassive Black Holes of Milky Way-size Galaxies Due to Direct Feeding by Satellites
The Astrophysical Journal·2018· 9 citedOpen Access
Wandering Supermassive Black Holes in Milky-Way-mass Halos
The Astrophysical Journal Letters·2018· 82 citedOpen Access
Dancing to changa: a self-consistent prediction for close SMBH pair formation time-scales following galaxy mergers
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2018· 97 citedOpen Access
How to Reconcile the Observed Velocity Function of Galaxies with Theory
The Astrophysical Journal·2017· 61 citedOpen Access
VizieR Online Data Catalog: Variable stars in the globular cluster DDO 216-A1 (Cole+, 2017)
yCat·2017
Constraining the Nature of Dark Matter with the Star-formation History of the Faintest Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Satellites
The Astrophysical Journal·2017· 11 citedOpen Access
Going, going, gone dark: Quantifying the scatter in the faintest dwarf galaxies
arXiv (Cornell University)·2017· 18 citedOpen Access
The Romulus cosmological simulations: a physical approach to the formation, dynamics and accretion models of SMBHs
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2017· 314 citedOpen Access
A rumble in the dark: signatures of self-interacting dark matter in supermassive black hole dynamics and galaxy density profiles
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2017· 41 citedOpen Access
The little Galaxies that could (reionize the universe): predicting faint end slopes & escape fractions at z>4
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2017· 41 citedOpen Access
Particle tagging and its implications for stellar population dynamics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2017· 15 citedOpen Access
Quantifying the origin and distribution of intracluster Light in a Fornax-Like Cluster
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2017· 17 citedOpen Access
Beta Dips in the Gaia Era: Simulation Predictions of the Galactic Velocity Anisotropy Parameter (β)
American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #229·2017
ASSESSING ASTROPHYSICAL UNCERTAINTIES IN DIRECT DETECTION WITH GALAXY SIMULATIONS
The Astrophysical Journal·2016· 59 citedOpen Access
How to quench a galaxy
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2016· 120 citedOpen Access
The effects of host galaxy properties on merging compact binaries detectable by LIGO
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2016· 50 citedOpen Access
Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations of Preferential Accretion in the SMBH of Milky Way Size Galaxies
arXiv (Cornell University)·2016Open Access
Black hole starvation and bulge evolution in a Milky Way-like galaxy
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society·2016· 47 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Thomas Quinn(33), James Wadsley(17), Joachim Stadel(16), George Lake(15), Lucio Mayer(13), Alyson Brooks(12), Andrew Pontzen(10), Ben Moore(8), Beth Willman(8), Marta Volonteri(8), Tom Quinn(6), Sijing Shen(6), Michael Tremmel(6), Sebastiano Ghigna(5), Chris B. Brook(5), Charlotte Christensen(5), P. Tozzi(4), Piero Madau(4), Gregory S. Stinson(4), Jillian Bellovary(4)