Black Holes in Pseudobulges: demography and models
Friday, February 3rd, 2012by Shankar, F. and Marulli, F. and Mathur, S. and Bernardi, M. and Bournaud, F.
9 pages, 4 Figures. Accepted by A&A
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Approximate Waveforms for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: The Chimera Scheme
Monday, January 30th, 2012by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
10 pages, 3 figures. LaTeX, JPCS style. Submitted to the proceedings of the 9th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, and the 2011 Numerical Relativity – Data Analysis (NRDA) meeting, held 10-15 July 2011 in Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 10-15 2011
The evolution of massive black holes and their spins in their galactic hosts
Monday, January 30th, 2012How well do STARLAB and NBODY compare? II: Hardware and accuracy
Monday, January 30th, 2012by Anders, P. and Baumgardt, H. and Gaburov, E. and Zwart, S. Portegies
14 pages incl. 3 pages with figures and 4 pages of tables (analysis results), MNRAS in press
High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects II: The census of BH seeds
Friday, January 20th, 2012by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Rossi, E. M. and Colpi, M. and Zwart, S. Portegies
12 pages, MNRAS, accepted
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
Double-peaked Narrow-Line Signatures of Dual Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Merger Simulations
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by Blecha, Laura and Loeb, Abraham and Narayan, Ramesh
20 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Is J enough? Comparison of gravitational waves emitted along the total angular momentum direction with other preferred orientations
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by O’Shaughnessy, R. and Healy, J. and London, L. and Meeks, Z. and Shoemaker, D.
Submitted to PRD
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
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
Masses of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes with Very-Long Baseline Interferometry
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Johannsen, Tim and Psaltis, Dimitrios and Gillessen, Stefan and Marrone, Daniel P. and Ozel, Feryal and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Fish, Vincent L.
7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted to ApJ
Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA/NGO: Phase Transitions, Cosmic Strings and Other Sources
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Binétruy, Pierre and Bohé, Alejandro and Caprini, Chiara and Dufaux, Jean-François
46 pages, 12 figures
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
Testing Other MONDian Theories Using LISA Pathfinder
Saturday, December 24th, 2011Erratic Jet Wobbling in the BL Lacertae Object OJ287 Revealed by Sixteen Years of 7mm VLBA Observations
Saturday, December 24th, 2011by Agudo, Ivan and Marscher, Alan P. and Jorstad, Svetlana G. and Gomez, Jose L. and Perucho, Manel and Piner, B. Glenn and Rioja, Maria and Dodson, Richard
Accepted for Publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. High resolution images on figure 1 and complete tables 1 and 2 may be provided on request
Late Inspiral and Merger of Binary Black Holes in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity
Monday, December 19th, 2011by Healy, James and Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Pazos, Enrique and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre M. and Yunes, Nicolás
4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
M94 As A Unique Testbed for Black Hole Mass Estimates and AGN Activity At Low Luminosities
Monday, December 19th, 2011by Constantin, Anca and Seth, Anil
11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
Feeding compact bulges and supermassive black holes with low angular-momentum cosmic gas at high redshift
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Dubois, Yohan and Pichon, Christophe and Haehnelt, Martin and Kimm, Taysun and Slyz, Adrianne and Devriendt, Julien and Pogosyan, Dmitry
16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Do Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes Follow the Same Host-Galaxy Correlations?
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Erwin, Peter and Gadotti, Dimitri
pdflatex, 10 pages, 4 figures. Invited paper for Advances in Astronomy special issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The Growth of the Stellar Seeds of Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Johnson, Jarrett L. and Whalen, Daniel J. and Fryer, Christopher L. and Li, Hui
14 pages, 4 figures; submitted to ApJ
What Drives the Growth of Black Holes?
Monday, December 12th, 2011by Alexander, David M. and Hickox, Ryan C.
42 pages, 8 figures; Extensive review to appear in New Astronomy Reviews
Mass Functions of Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Kelly, Brandon C. and Merloni, Andrea
40 pages, 7 figures, review paper accepted for the Advances in Astronomy Special Issue “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The Cluster of Blue Stars Surrounding the M31 Nuclear Black Hole
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Lauer, Tod R. and Bender, Ralf and Kormendy, John and Rosenfield, Philip and Green, Richard F.
29 pages, 11 figures (3 color); Astrophysical Journal accepted
Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes in Spin-flip Radio Galaxies
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Liu, F. K. and Wang, Dong and Chen, Xian
47 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ
The Limited Role of Mergers in the Black Hole to Bulge Mass Relation
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Lahav, Carmit Gordon and Meiron, Yohai and Soker, Noam
10 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
The Cosmic History of Black Hole Growth from Deep Multiwavelength Surveys
Monday, December 5th, 2011by Treister, Ezequiel and Urry, C. Megan
33 pages, 20 figures, review paper accepted for the Advances in Astronomy Special Issue “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The stochastic background from cosmic (super)strings: popcorn and (Gaussian) continuous regimes
Thursday, December 1st, 2011by Regimbau, Tania and Giampanis, Stefanos and Siemens, Xavier and Mandic, Vuk
21 pages, 11 figures, submitted to PRD
Evidence for Three Accreting Black Holes in a Galaxy at z~1.35: A Snapshot of Recently Formed Black Hole Seeds?
Thursday, December 1st, 2011by Schawinski, Kevin and Urry, Meg and Treister, Ezequiel and Simmons, Brooke and Natarajan, Priyamvada and Glikman, Eilat
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
The First Galaxies: Assembly with Black Hole Feedback
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011by Jeon, Myoungwon and Pawlik, Andreas H. and Greif, Thomas H. and Glover, Simon C. O. and Bromm, Volker and Milosavljevic, Milos and Klessen, Ralf S.
17 pages, 14 figures
The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio
Thursday, November 24th, 2011by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Tiec, Alexandre Le
11 pages, 2 figures