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Archive for the ‘accretion discs’ Category

Two temperature accretion around rotating black holes: Description of general advective flow paradigm in presence of various cooling processes to explain low to high luminous sources

Monday, October 26th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4502

by Rajesh, S. R. and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
25 pages including 22 figures; to appear in MNRAS

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Emergent Spectra From Disks Surrounding Kerr Black Holes: Effect of Photon Trapping and Disk Self-Shadowing

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3530

by Li, Guang-Xing and Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cao, Xinwu
15 pages, 13 figures

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Hydrodynamical Response of a Circumbinary Gas Disk to Black Hole Recoil and Mass Loss

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.0014

by Corrales, Lia R. and Haiman, Zoltán and MacFadyen, Andrew
16 pages with 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Self-gravitating warped discs around supermassive black holes

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

arXiv:0909.5333

by Ulubay-Siddiki, A. and Gerhard, O. and Arnaboldi, M.
13 pages, 21 figures, published in MNRAS

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Hot high-mass accretion disk candidates

Friday, September 4th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0691

by Beuther, H. and Walsh, A. J. and Longmore, S. N.
21 pages, 32 figures, accepted for ApJS. A high-resolution version can be found at http://www.mpia.de/homes/beuther/papers.html

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Three Dimensional Simulations of Vertical Magnetic Flux in the Immediate Vicinity of Black Holes

Friday, August 28th, 2009

arXiv:0908.3697

by Punsly, Brian and Igumenshchev, Igor V. and Hirose, Shigenobu
To appear in ApJ. The referenced movies can be found in the electronic on-line journal or http://85.20.11.14/punsly/PHI/movies/

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The Black Hole Mass and Magnetic Field Correlation in AGN: Testing by Optical Polarimetry

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2725

by Silant’ev, N. A. and Piotrovich, M. Yu. and Gnedin, Yu. N. and Natsvlishvili, T. M.
7 pages

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Role of emission angular directionality in spin determination of accreting black holes with broad iron line

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2387

by Svoboda, J. and Dovciak, M. and Goosmann, R. W. and Karas, V.
18 pages, 18 figures, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole

Monday, August 10th, 2009

arXiv:0908.1100

by Alig, Christian and Burkert, Andreas and Johansson, Peter H. and Schartmann, Marc
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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The Shape of an Accretion Disc in a Misaligned Black Hole Binary

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5142

by Martin, Rebecca G. and Pringle, J. E. and Tout, Christopher A.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Mass and spin coevolution during the alignment of a black hole in a warped accretion disc

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

arXiv:0907.3742

by Perego, A. and Dotti, M. and Colpi, M. and Volonteri, M.
20 pages, 15 figures (jpg or png format), 3 tables; to be published in MNRAS

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Oscillation Phenomena in the disk around the massive black hole Sagittarius A*

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5511

by Miyoshi, M. and Shen, Zhi-Qiang and Oyama, T. and Takahashi, R. and Kato, Y.
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MN Letter

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On the Prospect of Constraining Black-Hole Spin Through X-ray Spectroscopy of Hotspots

Friday, June 26th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4713

by Murphy, K. D. and Yaqoob, T. and Dovčiak, M. and Karas, V.
7 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Correlation of Black Hole-Bulge Masses by AGN Jets

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

arXiv:0905.2702

by Soker, Noam
Accepted by MNRAS Letters

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Spacetime constraints on accreting black holes

Monday, June 15th, 2009

arXiv:0906.2398

by Garofalo, David
Phys.RevD accepted

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Quasi-Periodic Flares from Star-Accretion Disc Collisions

Friday, June 5th, 2009

arXiv:0906.0800

by Dai, Lixin and Fuerst, Steven V. and Blandford, Roger
16 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS; corrected typos

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Signatures of black hole spin in galaxy evolution

Monday, June 1st, 2009

arXiv:0905.4782

by Garofalo, David
ApJL accepted

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Perturbed disks get shocked. Binary black hole merger effects on accretion disks

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

arXiv:0905.3390

by Megevand, Miguel and Anderson, Matthew and Frank, Juhan and Hirschmann, Eric W. and Lehner, Luis and Liebling, Steven L. and Motl, Patrick M. and Neilsen, David
10 pages, 13 figures

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Images of the radiatively inefficient accretion flow surrounding a Kerr black hole: application in Sgr A*

Friday, May 1st, 2009

arXiv:0904.4090

by Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cao, Xinwu and Huang, Lei and Shen, Zhi-Qiang
13 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted

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Massive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.0097

by Madau, P. and Abel, T. and Bender, P. and Di Matteo, T. and Haiman, Z. and Hughes, S. and Loeb, A. and Phinney, E. and Primack, J. and Prince, T. and Rees, M. and Richstone, D. and Schutz, B. and Thorne, K. and Volonteri, M.
Science White Paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey

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