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Jillian BellovaryPostdoctoral Researcherjillianx at umich.edu Phone: (734) 936-7904 |
Jillian Bellovary is a postdoc at the University of Michigan. This website is in progress!
Photo courtesy of H.N. James.
Research Interests
- the formation of supermassive black hole seeds
- intermediate mass black holes
- the physical mechanism behind the M-sigma relation
- really anything about black holes
Education
Jillian did her PhD at the University of Washington with Fabio Governato.
Selected Publications
- The First Massive Black Hole Seeds and Their Hosts
- Bellovary et al. 2011
- SMBH Formation via Gas Accretion in Nuclear Stellar Clusters
- Davies, Miller & Bellovary 2011
- Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos
- Bellovary et al. 2010
- Star Formation and Feedback in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic Simulations. II. Resolution Effects
- Christensen et al. 2010
- The nature of HI absorbers in gamma-ray burst afterglows: clues from hydrodynamic simulations
- Pontzen at al. 2010
- The Role of the Radial Orbit Instability in Dark Matter Halo Formation and Structure
- Bellovary et al. 2008
- ADS search
- Conduct a search of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System for papers that include me as an author.
Curriculum Vitae
A pdf of Jillian's CV is here.

