Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by General Relativistic Dynamical and Polarized Radiative Modeling
July 29th, 2010by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Penna, Robert F. and McKinney, Jonathan C.
17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics
July 29th, 2010by Alexander, Tal
Invited overview lecture in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies” (Shanghai 19-23/10/2009). To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris (12 pp 5 fig)
Broad emission lines for negatively spinning black holes
July 29th, 2010by Dauser, T. and Wilms, J. and Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W.
7 pages, 6 figures; accepted by MNRAS for Publication
Fast Fisher Matrices and Lazy Likelihoods
July 29th, 2010VLT Kinematics for omega Centauri: Further Support for a Central Black Hole
July 28th, 2010by Noyola, Eva and Gebhardt, Karl and Kissler-Patig, Markus and Lutzgendorf, Nora and Jalali, Behrang and de Zeeuw, P. Tim and Baumgardt, Holger
5 pages, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins
July 28th, 2010by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Mueller, Doreen and Bruegmann, Bernd
20 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables
On the falloff of radiated energy in black hole spacetimes
July 28th, 2010by Burko, Lior M. and Hughes, Scott A.
5 pages, no figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes
July 28th, 2010by Haiman, Zoltán
10 pages, 5 figures. Review contribution to the Proceedings of “The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade”, Austin, TX, March 8-11, 2010
Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: Gas Supply Driven by Star Formation
July 27th, 2010by Wang, J. -M. and Yan, C. -S. and Gao, H. -Q. and Hu, C. and Li, Y. -R. and Zhang, S.
emulateapj.sty, 5 page, 4 figures (in press)
The Carter Constant for Inclined Orbits About a Massive Kerr Black Hole: I. circular orbits
July 27th, 2010by Komorowski, P. G. and Valluri, S. R. and Houde, M.
48 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity on March 2nd, 2010
An expanded M_bh-sigma diagram, and a new calibration of active galactic nuclei masses
July 23rd, 2010by Graham, Alister W. and Onken, Christopher A. and Athanassoula, E. and Combes, Francoise
17 pages. Submitted to MNRAS on July 19
The peculiar optical spectrum of 4C+22.25: Imprint of a massive black hole binary?
July 23rd, 2010by Decarli, Roberto and Dotti, Massimo and Montuori, Carmen and Liimets, Tiina and Ederoclite, Alessandro
2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Precise Black Hole Masses From Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass
July 20th, 2010by Greene, J. E. and Peng, C. Y. and Kim, M. and Kuo, C. Y. and Braatz, J. A. and Impellizzeri, C. M. V. and Condon, J. J. and Lo, K. Y. and Henkel, C. and Reid, M. J.
21 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
High-Accuracy Comparison between the Post-Newtonian and Self-Force Dynamics of Black-Hole Binaries
July 16th, 2010by Blanchet, Luc and Detweiler, Steven and Tiec, Alexandre Le and Whiting, Bernard F.
29 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the book “Mass and Motion in General Relativity”, proceedings of the C.N.R.S. School in Orleans, France, eds. L. Blanchet, A. Spallicci and B. F. Whiting
Linear Stability Analysis and the Speed of Gravitational Waves in Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity
July 16th, 2010by Garfinkle, David and Pretorius, Frans and Yunes, Nicolas
4 pages, no figures, submitted to Rapid Communications
A hybrid method for understanding black-hole mergers: head-on case
July 15th, 2010by Nichols, David A. and Chen, Yanbei
13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, revtex4 format
Towards relativistic orbit fitting of Galactic center stars and pulsars
July 6th, 2010by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit and Merritt, David
20 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the ApJ
The Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes
June 22nd, 2010by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function
June 22nd, 2010by Kelly, Brandon C. and Vestergaard, Marianne and Fan, Xiaohui and Hopkins, Philip and Hernquist, Lars and Siemiginowska, Aneta
Accepted by ApJ, 25 pages (emulateapj), 11 figures
Highly accurate and efficient self-force computations using time-domain methods: Error estimates, validation, and optimization
June 22nd, 2010by Thornburg, Jonathan
27 pages, 12 eps figures (10 of them color, but all are viewable ok in black-and-white), uses RevTeX 4.1
Full-analytic frequency-domain 1pN-accurate gravitational wave forms from eccentric compact binaries
June 22nd, 2010Papaloizou-Pringle Instability of Magnetized Accretion Tori
June 22nd, 2010Accretion onto Intermediate Mass Black Holes Regulated by Radiative Feedback I. Spherical Symmetric Accretion
June 18th, 2010Higher order moment models of dense stellar systems: Applications to the modeling of the stellar velocity distribution function
June 18th, 2010by Schneider, Justus and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome
Spectropolarimetric evidence for a kicked supermassive black hole in the Quasar E1821+643
June 18th, 2010by Robinson, Andrew and Young, Stuart and Axon, David J. and Kharb, Preeti and Smith, James E.
18 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal as a Letter
Self consistent model for the evolution of eccentric massive black hole binaries in stellar environments: implications for gravitational wave observations
June 18th, 2010by Sesana, A.
15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters
June 18th, 2010Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics
June 15th, 2010by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo
The Lagrange Equilibrium Points L_4 and L_5 in a Black Hole Binary System
June 4th, 2010by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ; comments welcome
