A Fokker-Planck Study of Dense Rotating Stellar Clusters
June 29th, 2012by Girash, John
134 pages. Ph.D. dissertation (Harvard U. Dept. of Physics) 2009
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
The
last GW Note is a Special Issues on eLISA/NGO
Low angular momentum flow model for Sgr A*
June 29th, 2012An upper limit to the velocity dispersion of relaxed stellar systems without massive black holes
June 29th, 2012by Miller, M. Coleman and Davies, Melvyn B.
8 pages, 2 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal
A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Simulating Collisional N-body Systems
June 29th, 2012by Pattabiraman, Bharath and Umbreit, Stefan and Liao, Wei-Keng and Choudhary, Alok and Kalogera, Vassiliki and Memik, Gokhan and Rasio, Frederic A.
47 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ Supplements
Rotating Accretion Flows: From Infinity to the Black Hole
June 20th, 2012by Li, Jason and Ostriker, Jeremiah and Sunyaev, Rashid
18 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ
The Nature of Hypervelocity Stars and the Time Between Their Formation and Ejection
June 20th, 2012by Brown, Warren R. and Cohen, Judith G. and Geller, Margaret J. and Kenyon, Scott J.
6 pages, accepted to ApJ Letters
On the mass radiated by coalescing black-hole binaries
June 19th, 2012by Barausse, Enrico and Morozova, Viktoriya and Rezzolla, Luciano
9 pages (emulateapj), 4 figures
The Tidal Disruption of Giant Stars and Their Contribution to the Flaring Supermassive Black Hole Population
June 19th, 2012by MacLeod, Morgan and Guillochon, James and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
18 pages, 18 figures, submitted to ApJ
Modeling a circular equatorial test-particle in a Kerr spacetime
June 13th, 2012Hydrodynamical Simulations to Determine the Feeding Rate of Black Holes by the Tidal Disruption of Stars: The Importance of the Impact Parameter and Stellar Structure
June 13th, 2012by Guillochon, James and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
14 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Stellar dynamics and extreme-mass ratio inspirals
June 12th, 2012by Amaro-Seoane, Pau
160 pages, two columns. Invited review to Living Reviews in Relativity. Some parts profit from arXiv:astro-ph/0703495, although they have been significantly expanded and improved
The role of the supermassive black hole spin in the estimation of the EMRI event rate
June 12th, 2012by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Freitag, Marc Dewi
Submitted. Abstract abridged
Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks: I. Production & Growth
June 12th, 2012by McKernan, B. and Ford, K. E. S. and Lyra, W. and Perets, H. B.
11 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS (accepted)
Two in one? A possible dual radio-emitting nucleus in the quasar SDSS J1425+3231
June 12th, 2012by Frey, S. and Paragi, Z. and An, T. and Gabanyi, K. E.
7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Self-forced gravitational waveforms for Extreme and Intermediate mass ratio inspirals
June 12th, 2012Search for the PN coefficients for the Energy flux through Gravitational Waves from Black-Hole Binaries using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
June 12th, 2012by Kumar, Prayush
(59 pgs, 25figs). Undergraduate Thesis submitted to Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India; on 15th December, 2008
Testing Chern-Simons modified gravity with observations of extreme-mass-ratio binaries
June 12th, 2012by Canizares, Priscilla and Gair, Jonathan R. and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
10 pages, JPCS of the Amaldi 9 and NRDA 2011
X-ray emission from high-redshift miniquasars: self-regulating the population of massive black holes through global warming
June 12th, 2012by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Perna, Rosalba and Haiman, Zoltán
15 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Ubiquitous seeding of supermassive black holes by direct collapse
June 12th, 2012by Agarwal, Bhaskar and Khochfar, Sadegh and Johnson, Jarrett L. and Neistein, Eyal and Vecchia, Claudio Dalla and Livio, Mario
18 pages, 17 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Constraints on the Nature of CID-42: Recoil Kick or Supermassive Black Hole Pair?
June 12th, 2012by Blecha, Laura and Civano, Francesca and Elvis, Martin and Loeb, Abraham
10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. Replaced version has corrected reference to Civano et al. (2012)
The Discovery of an X-ray/UV Stellar Flare from the Late-K/Early-M Dwarf LMC 335
June 12th, 2012by Tsang, B. T. H. and Pun, J. C. S. and Di Stefano, R. and Li, K. L. and Kong, A. K. H.
35 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
N-body Integrators with Individual Time Steps from Hierarchical Splitting
June 12th, 2012by Pelupessy, Federico I. and Jänes, Jürgen and Zwart, Simon F. Portegies
20 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in New Astronomy
Accurate modeling of intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: exploring the form of the self-force in the intermediate-mass-ratio regime
June 12th, 2012by Huerta, E. A. and Kumar, Prayush and Brown, Duncan A.
21 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to PRD
The gap closes: a new scenario for the evolution of supermassive black hole binaries with gaseous disks
June 12th, 2012by Kocsis, Bence and Haiman, Zoltan and Loeb, Abraham
22 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Gas pile up and overflow in circumbinary accretion disks: Type-I.5 migration
June 12th, 2012by Kocsis, Bence and Haiman, Zoltan and Loeb, Abraham
20 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Secular Dynamical Anti-Friction in Galactic Nuclei
June 12th, 2012A New Sample of Candidate Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Selected by X-ray Variability
June 12th, 2012by Kamizasa, Naoya and Terashima, Yuichi and Awaki, Hisamitsu
To Appear in ApJ, 14 pages, 5 figures
A cosmological view of extreme mass-ratio inspirals in nuclear star clusters
June 12th, 2012by Mapelli, M. and Ripamonti, E. and Vecchio, A. and Graham, Alister W. and Gualandris, A.
11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The dynamics, appearance and demographics of relativistic jets triggered by tidal disruption of stars in quiescent supermassive black holes
June 12th, 2012by De Colle, Fabio and Guillochon, James and Naiman, Jill and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
16 pages, 16 figures, submitted to ApJ