An upper limit to the velocity dispersion of relaxed stellar systems without massive black holes
Friday, June 29th, 2012by Miller, M. Coleman and Davies, Melvyn B.
8 pages, 2 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
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On the mass radiated by coalescing black-hole binaries
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012by Barausse, Enrico and Morozova, Viktoriya and Rezzolla, Luciano
9 pages (emulateapj), 4 figures
Stellar dynamics and extreme-mass ratio inspirals
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Amaro-Seoane, Pau
160 pages, two columns. Invited review to Living Reviews in Relativity. Some parts profit from arXiv:astro-ph/0703495, although they have been significantly expanded and improved
The role of the supermassive black hole spin in the estimation of the EMRI event rate
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Freitag, Marc Dewi
Submitted. Abstract abridged
Two in one? A possible dual radio-emitting nucleus in the quasar SDSS J1425+3231
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Frey, S. and Paragi, Z. and An, T. and Gabanyi, K. E.
7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Self-forced gravitational waveforms for Extreme and Intermediate mass ratio inspirals
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012Search for the PN coefficients for the Energy flux through Gravitational Waves from Black-Hole Binaries using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Kumar, Prayush
(59 pgs, 25figs). Undergraduate Thesis submitted to Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India; on 15th December, 2008
Testing Chern-Simons modified gravity with observations of extreme-mass-ratio binaries
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Canizares, Priscilla and Gair, Jonathan R. and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
10 pages, JPCS of the Amaldi 9 and NRDA 2011
X-ray emission from high-redshift miniquasars: self-regulating the population of massive black holes through global warming
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Perna, Rosalba and Haiman, Zoltán
15 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Ubiquitous seeding of supermassive black holes by direct collapse
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Agarwal, Bhaskar and Khochfar, Sadegh and Johnson, Jarrett L. and Neistein, Eyal and Vecchia, Claudio Dalla and Livio, Mario
18 pages, 17 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Constraints on the Nature of CID-42: Recoil Kick or Supermassive Black Hole Pair?
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Blecha, Laura and Civano, Francesca and Elvis, Martin and Loeb, Abraham
10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. Replaced version has corrected reference to Civano et al. (2012)
Accurate modeling of intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: exploring the form of the self-force in the intermediate-mass-ratio regime
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Huerta, E. A. and Kumar, Prayush and Brown, Duncan A.
21 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to PRD
The gap closes: a new scenario for the evolution of supermassive black hole binaries with gaseous disks
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Kocsis, Bence and Haiman, Zoltan and Loeb, Abraham
22 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Gas pile up and overflow in circumbinary accretion disks: Type-I.5 migration
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Kocsis, Bence and Haiman, Zoltan and Loeb, Abraham
20 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS
A cosmological view of extreme mass-ratio inspirals in nuclear star clusters
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Mapelli, M. and Ripamonti, E. and Vecchio, A. and Graham, Alister W. and Gualandris, A.
11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Collisions of charged black holes
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Zilhão, Miguel and Cardoso, Vitor and Herdeiro, Carlos and Lehner, Luis and Sperhake, Ulrich
15 pages, 8 figures
Accretion, Growth of Supermassive Black Holes, and Feedback in Galaxy Mergers
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012An ultraviolet-optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Gezari, S. and Chornock, R. and Rest, A. and Huber, M. E. and Forster, K. and Berger, E. and Challis, P. J. and Neill, J. D. and Martin, D. C. and Heckman, T. and Lawrence, A. and Norman, C. and Narayan, G. and Foley, R. J. and Marion, G. H. and Scolnic, D. and Chomiuk, L. and Soderberg, A. and Smith, K. and Kirshner, R. P. and Riess, A. G. and Smartt, S. J. and Stubbs, C. W. and Tonry, J. L. and Wood-Vasey, W. M. and Burgett, W. S. and Chambers, K. C. and Grav, T. and Heasley, J. N. and Kaiser, N. and Kudritzki, R. -P. and Magnier, E. A. and Morgan, J. S. and Price, P. A.
To appear in Nature on May 10, 2012
On the hunt for ultramassive black holes in brightest cluster galaxies
Friday, April 27th, 2012by Hlavacek-Larrondo, J. and Fabian, A. C. and Edge, A. C. and Hogan, M. T.
9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Models of cuspy triaxial stellar systems. I. Stability and chaoticity
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012by Zorzi, Alejandra F. and Muzzio, Juan C.
10 pages, 5 figures. The Article has been submitted for publication in Monthly Notices of the RAS by the Royal Astronomical Society and Blackwell Publishing. At this time has been accepted but not yet published
Collisionless dynamics in Globular Clusters
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012by Williams, Liliya L. R. and Barnes, Eric I. and Hjorth, Jens
27 pages, 18 figures; accepted to MNRAS
On the Link Between Central Black Holes, Bar Dynamics, and Dark Matter Halos in Spiral Galaxies
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Treuthardt, Patrick and Seigar, Marc S. and Sierra, Amber D. and Al-Baidhany, Ismaeel and Salo, Heikki and Kennefick, Daniel and Kennefick, Julia and Lacy, Claud H. S.
17 pages, 1 table, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Stable counteralignment of a circumbinary disc
Saturday, April 21st, 2012The Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Center of NGC 404: New Evidence from Radio Continuum Observations
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Nyland, Kristina and Marvil, Josh and Wrobel, Joan and Young, Lisa and Zauderer, B. Ashley
Accepted for publication to ApJ
The hidden AGN main sequence: Evidence for a universal SMBH accretion to star formation rate ratio since z~2 producing a M_BH-M* relation
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Mullaney, J. R. and Daddi, E. and Béthermin, M. and Elbaz, D. and Juneau, S. and Pannella, M. and Sargent, M. T. and Alexander, D. M. and Hickox, R. C.
6 Pages, 3 Figures, Submitted to ApJL
BLR kinematics and Black Hole Mass in Markarian 6
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Doroshenko, V. T. and Sergeev, S. G. and Klimanov, S. A. and Pronik, V. I. and Efimov, Yu. S.
17 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
3-D Radiative Transfer Calculations of Radiation Feedback from Massive Black Holes: Outflow of Mass from the Dusty “Torus”
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Roth, Nathaniel and Kasen, Daniel and Hopkins, Philip F. and Quataert, Eliot
15 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to ApJ; v2 Corrected spelling and other small typos
Review: Accretion Disk Theory
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012No Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Strong Constraints from the JVLA
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Strader, Jay and Chomiuk, Laura and Maccarone, Thomas and Miller-Jones, James and Seth, Anil and Heinke, Craig and Sivakoff, Gregory
6 pages, 2 figures. ApJL in press
The Formation of the First Massive Black Holes
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Haiman, Zoltán
47 pages with 306 references; this review is a chapter in “The First Galaxies – Theoretical Predictions and Observational Clues”, Springer Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Eds. T. Wiklind, V. Bromm & B. Mobasher, in press