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Archive for the ‘accretion discs’ Category

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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Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes

Monday, August 16th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2287

by Done, Chris
56 pages. To appear in XXI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics. Ed T Shahbaz, CUP

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Broad emission lines for negatively spinning black holes

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4937

by Dauser, T. and Wilms, J. and Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W.
7 pages, 6 figures; accepted by MNRAS for Publication

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Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: Gas Supply Driven by Star Formation

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4060

by Wang, J. -M. and Yan, C. -S. and Gao, H. -Q. and Hu, C. and Li, Y. -R. and Zhang, S.
emulateapj.sty, 5 page, 4 figures (in press)

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Papaloizou-Pringle Instability of Magnetized Accretion Tori

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3824

by Fu, Wen and Lai, Dong
15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Accretion onto Intermediate Mass Black Holes Regulated by Radiative Feedback I. Spherical Symmetric Accretion

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.1302

by Park, KwangHo and Ricotti, Massimo
14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Momentum-driven winds and positive AGN feedback

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

arXiv:1004.0857

by Silk, Joe and Nusser, Adi

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Inflow-Outflow Model with Conduction and Self-Consistent Feeding for Sgr A*

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

arXiv:1004.0702

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Baganoff, Frederick K.
6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJL

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On the Dynamics and Evolution of Gravitational Instability-Dominated Disks

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4513

by Krumholz, Mark R. and Burkert, Andreas
14 pages, 3 figures, emulateapj format, submitted to ApJ

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

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

arXiv:1002.4621

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

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Connections Between Local and Global Turbulence in Accretion Disks

Monday, 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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Evolution and instabilities of disks harboring super massive black holes

Monday, 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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Accretion and Outflow in Active Galaxies

Thursday, 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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Magnetic Connection Model for Launching Relativistic Jets from a Kerr Black Hole

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5434

by Dutan, Ioana
12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4809

by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Hawley, John F.
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 52 pages, 38 figures, AASTEX. High-resolution versions can be found at the following links: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.ps, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.pdf

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On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes

Monday, January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3883

by Hobbs, Alexander and Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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High redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects I: model description

Monday, January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3874

by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Colpi, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3571

by Yuan, Feng and Bu, Defu
9 pages, 9 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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A Separable Solution for the Oscillatory Structure of Plasma in Accretion Disks

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2430

by Lattanzi, Massimiliano and Montani, Giovanni
6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Europhysics Letters

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The extreme luminosity states of Sagittarius A*

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1351

by Sabha, N. and Witzel, G. and Eckart, A. and Buchholz, R. M. and Bremer, M. and Giessuebel, R. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Schoedel, R. and Straubmeier, C. and Zamaninasab, M. and Zernickel, A.
18 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A

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Direct Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Multi-Scale Gas Inflows in Galaxy Mergers

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

arXiv:0912.4262

by Mayer, Lucio and Kazantzidis, Stelios and Escala, Andres and Callegari, Simone
26 pages, 4 Figures, submitted to Nature (includes Supplementary Information)

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How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3257

by Hopkins, Philip F. and Quataert, Eliot
15 figures, 30 pages. Submitted to MNRAS. Movies of the simulations described here can be found at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~phopkins/Site/Movies_zoom.html

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Inflow-Outflow Solution with Stellar Winds and Conduction near Sgr A*

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3255

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Baganoff, Frederick K.
3 pages, 2 figures; to be published in “The Galactic Center: a Window to the Nuclear Activity of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris et al., Astron. Soc. Pacific, 2010

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