The last GW Note is by Nicolás Yunes

The Eccentric Disc Instability: Dependency on Background Stellar Cluster

February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1277

by Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Mass Segregation in the Galactic Centre

February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1220

by Hopman, Clovis and Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Discriminating between a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background and Instrument Noise

February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1291

by Adams, Matthew R. and Cornish, Neil J.
10 Pages, 10 Figures

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Numerical Models of Sgr A*

February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1261

by Moscibrodzka, M. and Gammie, C. F. and Dolence, J. and Shiokawa, H. and Leung, P. K.
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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High-Order Post-Newtonian Fit of the Gravitational Self-Force for Circular Orbits in the Schwarzschild Geometry

February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0726

by Blanchet, Luc and Detweiler, Steven and Tiec, Alexandre Le and Whiting, Bernard F.
32 pages, 2 figures

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The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Centaurus A: Revealed by Gas- and Stellar Kinematics

February 5th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0965

by Neumayer, Nadine
8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA, contribution for “The Many Faces of Centaurus A” conference in Sydney, 2009

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Stellar disc — dynamical evolution in a perturbed potential

February 4th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0718

by Subr, Ladislav
“The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Effects of Interplanetary Dust on the LISA drag-free Constellation

February 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.0489

by Cerdonio, Massimo and De Marchi, Fabrizio and De Pietri, Roberto and Jetzer, Philippe and Marzari, Francesco and Mazzolo, Giulio and Ortolan, Antonello and Sereno, Mauro
11 pages, 6 figures, to be published on the special issue of “Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy” on the CELMEC V conference

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The Impact of Stellar Collisions in the Galactic Center

February 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.0338

by Davies, M. B. and Church, R. P. and Malmberg, D. and Nzoke, S. and Dale, J. and Freitag, M.
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites

February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5451

by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009

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Dynamical Models of the Galactic Center

February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5435

by Merritt, David
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Magnetic Connection Model for Launching Relativistic Jets from a Kerr Black Hole

February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5434

by Dutan, Ioana
12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Composition of the galactic center star cluster

February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5381

by Buchholz, R. M. and Schoedel, R. and Eckart, A.
Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

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The search for spinning black hole binaries in mock LISA data using a genetic algorithm

February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5380

by Petiteau, Antoine and Shang, Yu and Babak, Stanislav and Feroz, Farhan
25 pages, 9 figures

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The Current Status of Binary Black Hole Simulations in Numerical Relativity

January 29th, 2010

arXiv:1001.5161

by Hinder, Ian
14 pages; submitted to the Classical and Quantum Gravity special issue for NRDA2009

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Towards Tests of Alternative Theories of Gravity with LISA

January 28th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4899

by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
3 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010

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Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case

January 28th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4809

by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Hawley, John F.
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 52 pages, 38 figures, AASTEX. High-resolution versions can be found at the following links: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.ps, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.pdf

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Modelling Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals using Pseudospectral Methods

January 27th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4697

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
3 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010

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The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster in Context

January 26th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4238

by Schoedel, Rainer
Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

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Massive Young Stars in the Galactic Center

January 26th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4232

by Bartko, H.
Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

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On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes

January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3883

by Hobbs, Alexander and Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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High redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects I: model description

January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3874

by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Colpi, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Advances in Simulations of Generic Black-Hole Binaries

January 24th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3834

by Campanelli, Manuela and Lousto, Carlos O. and Mundim, Bruno C. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Bischof, Hans-Peter
12 pages, 5 figures, Prepared for 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi8)

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Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses

January 24th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3675

by Peterson, Bradley M.
10 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 267 “Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies”

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Numerical modeling of gravitational wave sources accelerated by OpenCL

January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3631

by Khanna, Gaurav and McKennon, Justin
14 pages, 4 figures

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Mass function of binary massive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3612

by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Ueda, Yoshihiro and Isobe, Naoki
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling

January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3571

by Yuan, Feng and Bu, Defu
9 pages, 9 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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Measuring the dark energy equation of state with LISA

January 19th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3099

by Broeck, Chris Van Den and Trias, M. and Sathyaprakash, B. S. and Sintes, A. M.
14 pages, many eps figures

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Persistent junk solutions in time-domain modeling of extreme mass ratio binaries

January 18th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2578

by Field, Scott E. and Hesthaven, Jan S. and Lau, Stephen R.
Uses revtex4, 23 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables

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Intermediate Mass Ratio Black Hole Binaries: Numerical Relativity meets Perturbation Theory

January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2316

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
4 pages, 5 figures, revtex4

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