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The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0680

by Seth, Anil C. and Cappellari, Michele and Neumayer, Nadine and Caldwell, Nelson and Bastian, Nate and Olsen, Knut and Blum, Robert D. and Debattista, Victor P. and McDermid, Richard and Puzia, Thomas and Stephens, Andrew
To appear in ApJ. 21 pages, 19 figures, higher resolution PDF available at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~aseth/ngc404paper.pdf

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Evolution of massive black hole spins

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3827

by Volonteri, Marta
10 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the conference “Accretion and ejection in AGN: a global view” (Como, 22-26 June 2009)

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Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1

Friday, February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3404

by Farrell, S. A. and Servillat, M. and Oates, S. R. and Heywood, I. and Godet, O. and Webb, N. A. and Barret, D.
4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted 11th of Feb 2010. Contributed talk to appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini

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Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes

Friday, February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3378

by Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Micic, Miroslav and Sigurdsson, Steinn and Rubbo, Louis
18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in the Astrophysical Journal

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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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Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1712

by Callegari, S. and Kazantzidis, S. and Mayer, L. and Colpi, M. and Bellovary, J. M. and Quinn, T. and Wadsley, J.
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

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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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The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1705

by Batcheldor, D.
ApJ Letters, accepted

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The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1703

by Feoli, A. and Mancini, L. and Marulli, F. and Bergh, S. van den
16 pages, 5 figures, to be published in a special issue of General Relativity and Gravitation

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The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Centaurus A: Revealed by Gas- and Stellar Kinematics

Friday, February 5th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0965

by Neumayer, Nadine
8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA, contribution for “The Many Faces of Centaurus A” conference in Sydney, 2009

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Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5451

by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009

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Dynamical Models of the Galactic Center

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5435

by Merritt, David
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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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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Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3675

by Peterson, Bradley M.
10 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 267 “Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies”

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Mass function of binary massive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3612

by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Ueda, Yoshihiro and Isobe, Naoki
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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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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Gravitational recoil: effects on massive black hole occupation fraction over cosmic time

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1743

by Volonteri, Marta and Gultekin, Kayhan and Dotti, Massimo
Submitted to MNRAS

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Testing MOND/TEVES with LISA Pathfinder

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1303

by Trenkel, Christian and Kemble, Steve and Bevis, Neil and Magueijo, Joao
Twin paper to arXiv:0912.0710

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Measuring Black Hole Spin in OJ287

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1284

by Valtonen, M. and Mikkola, S. and Lehto, H. J. and Hyvönen, T. and Nilsson, K. and Merritt, D. and Gopakumar, A. and Rampadarath, H. and Hudec, R. and Basta, M. and Saunders, R.
12 pages, 4 figures, IAU261

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An Intermediate-mass Black Hole of Over 500 Solar Masses in the Galaxy ESO 243-49

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.0567

by Farrell, Sean and Webb, Natalie and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier and Rodrigues, Joana
5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, published in Nature

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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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The EXIST view of Super-Massive Black Holes in the Universe

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3096

by Della Ceca, Roberto and Ghisellini, Gabriele and Tagliaferri, Gianpiero and Foschini, Luigi and Pareschi, Giovanni and Tavecchio, Fabrizio and Coppi, Paolo and Grindlay, Josh E. and Fiocchi, Maria Teresa and Natalucci, Lorenzo and Panessa, Francesca and Ubertini, Pietro
6 pages, 2 figures. Proc. of Workshop “The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV”, Otranto (Lecce) Italy, October 13-17, 2009 Proceedings of Science, http://pos.sissa.it. Submitted version

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Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton’s constant with gravitational wave observations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2724

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans and Spergel, David
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Spheroids. IV. The BH Mass – Spheroid Luminosity Relation

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4107

by Bennert, Vardha Nicola and Treu, Tommaso and Woo, Jong-Hak and Malkan, Matthew A. and Bris, Alexandre Le and Auger, Matthew W. and Gallagher, Sarah and Blandford, Roger D.
39 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4718

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures

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Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5711

by Krolik, Julian H.
14 pages. Ap J, in press

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Variability and stability in blazar jets on time scales of years: Optical polarization monitoring of OJ287 in 2005-2009

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0005

by Villforth, C. and Nilsson, K. and Heidt, J. and Takalo, L. O. and Pursimo, T. and Berdyugin, A. and Lindfors, E. and Pasanen, M. and Winiarski, M. and Drozdz, M. and Ogloza, W. and Kurpinska-Winiarska, M. and Siwak, M. and Koziel-Wierzbowska, D. and Porowski, C. and Kuzmicz, A. and Krzesinski, J. and Kundera, T. and Wu, J. -H. and Zhou, X. and Efimov, Y. and Sadakane, K. and Kamada, M. and Ohlert, J. and Hentunen, V. -P. and Nissinen, M. and Dietrich, M. and Assef, R. J. and Atlee, D. W. and Bird, J. and DePoy, D. L. and Eastman, J. and Peeples, M. S. and Prieto, J. and Watson, L. and Yee, J. C. and Liakos, A. and Niarchos, P. and Gazeas, K. and Dogru, S. and Donmez, A. and Marchev, D. and Coggins-Hill, S. A. and Mattingly, A. and Keel, W. C. and Haque, S. and Aungwerojwit, A. and Bergvall, N.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS (26 pages, 24 figures, 4 tables)

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