The last GW Note is by Nicolás Yunes

The Underluminous Nature of Sgr A*

March 9th, 2010

arXiv:1003.1519

by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Wardle, M.
4 pages, To appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini

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Understanding the “anti-kick” in the merger of binary black holes

March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0873

by Rezzolla, Luciano and Macedo, Rodrigo P. and Jaramillo, José Luis
4 pages

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Semianalytical estimates of scattering thresholds and gravitational radiation in ultrarelativistic black hole encounters

March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0812

by Berti, Emanuele and Cardoso, Vitor and Hinderer, Tanja and Lemos, Madalena and Pretorius, Frans and Sperhake, Ulrich and Yunes, Nicolas
29 pages, 19 figure, 6 tables

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The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole

March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0680

by Seth, Anil C. and Cappellari, Michele and Neumayer, Nadine and Caldwell, Nelson and Bastian, Nate and Olsen, Knut and Blum, Robert D. and Debattista, Victor P. and McDermid, Richard and Puzia, Thomas and Stephens, Andrew
To appear in ApJ. 21 pages, 19 figures, higher resolution PDF available at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~aseth/ngc404paper.pdf

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Binary spinning black hole Hamiltonian in canonical center-of-mass and rest-frame coordinates through higher post-Newtonian order

March 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1003.0390

by Rothe, Tilman J. and Schäfer, Gerhard
18 pages, no figures

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A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri

March 1st, 2010

arXiv:1002.5037

by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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On the angular momentum transport due to vertical convection in accretion discs

February 27th, 2010

arXiv:1002.4621

by Lesur, G. and Ogilvie, G. I.
6 pages, 5 figures, accepted in MNRAS

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EM counterparts of recoiling black holes: general relativistic simulations of non-Keplerian discs

February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.4185

by Zanotti, Olindo and Rezzolla, Luciano and Del Zanna, Luca and Palenzuela, Carlos
17 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS, movies available at http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/Visualisations/Archive/BinaryBlackHoles/EMCounterparts/EMCounterparts.html

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Evolution of massive black hole spins

February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3827

by Volonteri, Marta
10 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the conference “Accretion and ejection in AGN: a global view” (Como, 22-26 June 2009)

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Chandra and Swift Follow-up Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in ESO243-49

February 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3625

by Webb, N. A. and Barret, D. and Godet, O. and Servillat, M. and Farrell, S. A. and Oates, S. R.
10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL on 12/02/2010

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Connections Between Local and Global Turbulence in Accretion Disks

February 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3611

by Sorathia, Kareem A. and Reynolds, Christopher S. and Armitage, Philip J.
8 Pages, 7 Figures ApJ, In Press

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Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1

February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3404

by Farrell, S. A. and Servillat, M. and Oates, S. R. and Heywood, I. and Godet, O. and Webb, N. A. and Barret, D.
4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted 11th of Feb 2010. Contributed talk to appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini

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Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes

February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3378

by Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Micic, Miroslav and Sigurdsson, Steinn and Rubbo, Louis
18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in the Astrophysical Journal

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Flares from Sgr A* and their emission mechanism

February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2885

by Dodds-Eden, K. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Quataert, E. and Gillessen, S. and Grosso, N. and Genzel, R. and Goldwurm, A. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Trippe, S. and Bartko, H. and Eisenhauer, F. and Ott, T. and Fritz, T. K. and Pfuhl, O.
Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

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Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes

February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2643

by Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich and Berti, Emanuele
20 pages, 16 figures, revtex

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HST Palpha Survey of the Galactic Center — Searching the missing young stellar populations within the Galactic Center

February 15th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2611

by Dong, H. and Wang, Q. D. and Cotera, A. and Stolovy, S. and Morris, M. R. and Mauerhan, J. and Mills, E. A. and Schneider, G. and Lang, C.
10 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

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Evolution and instabilities of disks harboring super massive black holes

February 15th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2562

by Curir, Anna and de Romeri, Valentina and Murante, Giuseppe
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for pubblication in “Astrophysics and Space Science”

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Cover art: issues in the metric-guided and metric-less placement of random and stochastic template banks

February 13th, 2010

arXiv:0909.0563

by Manca, Gian Mario and Vallisneri, Michele
RevTeX4, 21 pages, 9 PDF figures

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Gravitational self-force on a particle in eccentric orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole

February 12th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2386

by Barack, Leor and Sago, Norichika
42 pages

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Young massive star clusters

February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1961

by Zwart, Simon Portegies and McMillan, Steve and Gieles, Mark
Only 88 pages. To be published in ARAA. Final version to be submitted on Friday 12 February

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Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies

February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1712

by Callegari, S. and Kazantzidis, S. and Mayer, L. and Colpi, M. and Bellovary, J. M. and Quinn, T. and Wadsley, J.
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Accretion and Outflow in Active Galaxies

February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1808

by King, Andrew
invited review, IAU Symposium 267, Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, B.M. Peterson, R.S. Somerville, and T. Storchi-Bergmann, eds typos in eq (2.2) corrected

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The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments

February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1705

by Batcheldor, D.
ApJ Letters, accepted

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The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models

February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1703

by Feoli, A. and Mancini, L. and Marulli, F. and Bergh, S. van den
16 pages, 5 figures, to be published in a special issue of General Relativity and Gravitation

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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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