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Archive for the ‘accretion discs’ Category

Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0412

by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS, submitted

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Slim accretion disks around black holes

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0396

by Sadowski, A.
Ph.D. thesis written under the supervision of Prof. Marek Abramowicz and defended on July 1, 2011 at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences; 206 pages

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Stability of self-gravitating discs under irradiation

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1194

by Rice, W. K. M. and Armitage, P. J. and Mamatsashvili, G. R. and Lodato, G. and Clarke, C. J.
MNRAS, in press

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Electromagnetic counterparts of supermassive black hole binaries resolved by pulsar timing arrays

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2937

by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltán and Menou, Kristen
16 pages with 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Multimessenger astronomy with pulsar timing and X-ray observations of massive black hole binaries

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2927

by Sesana, A. and Roedig, C. and Reynolds, M. T. and Dotti, M.
19 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Accretion disks around kicked black holes: Post-kick Dynamics

Monday, July 11th, 2011

arXiv:1107.1711

by Ponce, Marcelo and Faber, Joshua A. and Lombardi, James C.
Submitted to ApJ. Movies available as ‘ancillary files’

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3C390.3: More Stable Evidence for Origination of Double-Peaked Broad Balmer Lines from Accretion Disk Near Central Black Hole

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0455

by Zhang, Xue-Guang
17 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS accepted

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Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.3069

by Wong, Ka-Wah and Irwin, Jimmy A. and Yukita, Mihoko and Million, Evan T. and Mathews, William G. and Bregman, Joel N.
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Gravitational waves from the Papaloizou-Pringle instability in black hole-torus systems

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

arXiv:1105.5035

by Kiuchi, Kenta and Shibata, Masaru and Montero, Pedro J. and Font, José A.
4 pages, 4 figure, to be published in PRL

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Binary black hole mergers in gaseous disks: Simulations in general relativity

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2821

by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
submitted to PRD

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Radiative efficiency and thermal spectrum of accretion onto Schwarzschild black holes

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2825

by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Schnittman, Jeremy D. and Hawley, John F.
Submitted to ApJ, 26 pages, 12 figures (some in color), AASTEX

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Tidal Disruption Flares: The Accretion Disk Phase

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2060

by Armijo, Matias Montesinos and Pacheco, José A. de Freitas
14 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to the ApJ

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Black Hole Accretion Disks

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5499

by Abramowicz, Marek A. and Fragile, P. Chris
58 pages, 22 figures, submitted to Living Reviews in Relativity

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Observable Signatures of EMRI Black Hole Binaries Embedded in Thin Accretion Disks

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

arXiv:1104.2322

by Kocsis, Bence and Yunes, Nicolas and Loeb, Abraham
42 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Exploring the effects of pressure on the radial accretion of dark matter by a Schwarzschild supermassive black hole

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5497

by Guzman, F. S. and Lora-Clavijo, F. D.
9 pages, 24 eps figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A fully relativistic twisted disk around a slowly rotating Kerr black hole: derivation of dynamical equations and the shape of stationary configurations

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5739

by Zhuravlev, V. and Ivanov, P.
accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Supermassive Black Hole in an Elliptical Galaxy: Accretion of a Hot Gas with a Low but Finite Angular Momentum

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1101.5550

by Inogamov, N. A. and Sunyaev, R. A.
Full text of the paper with two Appendices is published in Astronomy Letters, Vol. 36, p. 835 (2010)

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Near-infrared polarimetry as a tool for testing properties of accreting super-massive black holes

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0775

by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Schoedel, R. and Witzel, G. and Sabha, N. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Straubmeier, C. and Valencia-S, M. and Zensus, J. A.
12 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Resolution requirements for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs

Friday, January 14th, 2011

arXiv:1101.2448

by Lodato, Giuseppe and Clarke, Cathie C.
7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted by MNRAS

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Numerical Parameter Survey of Nonradiative Black Hole Accretion — Flow Structure and Variability of the Rotation Measure

Friday, November 26th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5498

by Pang, Bijia and Pen, Ue-Li and Matzner, Christopher D. and Green, Stephen R. and Liebendörfer, Matthias

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Magnetothermal and magnetorotational instabilities in hot accretion flows

Friday, November 26th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5331

by Bu, De-Fu and Yuan, Feng and Stone, James M
7 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Massive black holes in stellar systems: ‘quiescent’ accretion and luminosity

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1011.4311

by Volonteri, Marta and Dotti, Massimo and Campbell, Duncan and Mateo, Mario
Submitted to ApJ

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Star Formation in Quasar Disk

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.3541

by Jiang, Yanfei and Goodman, Jeremy
34 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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Retrograde Accretion and Merging Supermassive Black Holes

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

arXiv:1011.1914

by Nixon, C. J. and Cossins, P. J. and King, A. R. and Pringle, J. E.
8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Movies of the simulations can be found at: http://www.astro.le.ac.uk/users/cjn12/RetroBinaryMovies.html

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Properties of Accretion Flows Around Coalescing Supermassive Black Holes

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2496

by Bogdanovic, Tamara and Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. for proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium

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Variability of black-hole accretion discs: a theoretical study

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2259

by Ferreira, Barbara T.
PhD thesis, 199 pages, 32 figures. For higher quality images, please contact the author

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One-zone models for spheroidal galaxies with a central supermassive black-hole. Self-regulated Bondi accretion

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

arXiv:1009.5292

by Lusso, E. and Ciotti, L.
Accepted for publication in A&A, 12 pages, 5 figures

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Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0157

by Hayasaki, Kimitake
12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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The growth of supermassive black holes fed by accretion disks

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4150

by Armijo, M. A. Montesinos and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas
10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to A&A

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Gravitational recoils of supermassive black holes in hydrodynamical simulations of gas rich galaxies

Friday, August 20th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3313

by Sijacki, Debora and Springel, Volker and Haehnelt, Martin
15 pages, 13 figures, MNRAS submitted

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