Michigan Astronomy

Jillian Bellovary

Postdoctoral Researcher

jillianx at umich.edu

905 Dennison
500 Church St.
Ann Arbor, Mi 48109

Phone: (734) 936-7904
Fax: (734) 763-6317

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

Curriculum Vitae

A pdf of Jillian's CV is here.

ADS search
Conduct a search of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System for papers that include me as an author.