Gravitational wave diagnosis of a circumbinary disk
Monday, January 16th, 2012by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Yagi, Kent and Tanaka, Takahiro and Mineshige, Shin
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ
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Archive for the ‘accretion discs’ Category
Stochastic oscillations of general relativistic disks
Thursday, January 12th, 2012by Harko, Tiberiu and Mocanu, Gabriela
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef and Dotti, Massimo and Volonteri, Marta
17 pages, 10 tables, 14 figures, revtex 4
Accretion Disc Theory since Shakura and Sunyaev
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by King, Andrew
to appear in proceedings of `The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables’, Memorie Societa’ Astronomica Italiana, 2012 (F. Giovannelli and L. Sabau-Graziati eds.)
Clearing Out a Galaxy
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Zubovas, Kastytis and King, Andrew R.
6 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Physics of the Galactic Center Cloud G2, on its Way towards the Super-Massive Black Hole
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Burkert, Andreas and Schartmann, Mark and Alig, Christian and Gillessen, Stefan and Genzel, Reinhard and Fritz, Tobias and Eisenhauer, Frank
22 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Broken discs: warp propagation in accretion discs
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Nixon, Chris and King, Andrew
8 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Multiphase, non-spherical gas accretion onto a black hole
Monday, December 26th, 2011by Barai, Paramita and Proga, Daniel and Nagamine, Kentaro
23 pages, 11 figures, submitted. Uploaded version contains low-resolution color figures. Version with high-resolution figures can be found at: http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~barai/AllPages/Images-Movies/BHaccr_MultiPhase.pdf
Measuring the Effects of Artificial Viscosity in SPH Simulations of Rotating Fluid Flows
Saturday, December 24th, 2011by Taylor, Paul A. and Miller, John C.
14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Accretion-Driven Evolution of Black Holes: Eddington Ratios, Duty Cycles, and Active Galaxy Fractions
Thursday, November 17th, 2011by Shankar, Francesco and Weinberg, David H. and Miralda-Escude’, Jordi
27 pages, 16 Figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Improving the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with an integral approach to calculate gradients
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011by Garcia-Senz, Domingo and Cabezon, Ruben M. and Escartin, Jose Antonio
15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Convergence of SPH simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs: Sensitivity to the implementation of radiative cooling
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011by Rice, W. K. M. and Forgan, D. H. and Armitage, P. J.
9 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS in press
Dusty gas with SPH – II. Implicit timestepping and astrophysical drag regimes
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Dusty gas with SPH – I. Algorithm and test suite
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Jets from Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Black Holes
Monday, November 14th, 2011No evidence of obscured, accreting black holes in most z=6 star-forming galaxies
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011Properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating non-Kerr black hole
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Chen, Songbai and Jing, Jiliang
13 pages, 5 figures. References added, Expanded discussion of the marginally stable orbit and its consequence. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1106.5183
Accretion onto Black Holes from Large Scales Regulated by Radiative Feedback. II. Growth Rate and Duty Cycle
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Park, KwangHo and Ricotti, Massimo
27 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ, for associated mpeg files, see http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kpark/research.html
Massive black hole binaries: dynamical evolution and observational signatures
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Dotti, M. and Sesana, A. and Decarli, R.
4 Figures. Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
Radiatively Inefficient Accretion: Breezes, Winds and Hyperaccretion
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Begelman, Mitchell C.
13 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Strong field effects on emission line profiles: Kerr black holes and warped accretion disks
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Wang, Yan and Li, Xiang-Dong
22 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Optical polarization angle and VLBI jet direction in the binary black hole model of OJ287
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Valtonen, Mauri J. and Villforth, Carolin and Wiik, Kaj
to appear in Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society
Roche Accretion of stars close to massive black holes
Friday, October 14th, 2011Galactic Centre star formation: the case of the missing gas disc
Friday, September 23rd, 2011by Alexander, R. D. and Smedley, S. L. and Nayakshin, S. and King, A. R.
7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Accretion onto Intermediate-mass Seed Black Holes in Primordial Galaxies
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Accretion Onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the High-redshift Radio-loud AGN 0957+561
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Gil-Merino, Rodrigo and Goicoechea, Luis J. and Shalyapin, Vyacheslav N. and Braga, Vittorio F.
21 pages, 7 text pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
Hydrodynamic simulations on a moving Voronoi mesh
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Springel, Volker
35 pages, 10 figures; invited review for the volume “Tessellations in the Sciences: Virtues, Techniques and Applications of Geometric Tilings”, eds. R. van de Weijgaert, G. Vegter, J. Ritzerveld and V. Icke, Springer (accepted)
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Astrophysics
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Springel, Volker
43 pages, 11 figures, invited review that appeared in ARA&A
Testing black hole no-hair theorem with OJ287
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011by Valtonen, M. J. and Mikkola, S. and Lehto, H. J. and Gopakumar, A. and Hudec, R. and Polednikova, J.
14 pages, 14 figures