Evolution of massive black hole spins
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010by 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)
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
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Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1
Friday, February 19th, 2010by 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
Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes
Friday, February 19th, 2010by Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Micic, Miroslav and Sigurdsson, Steinn and Rubbo, Louis
18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in the Astrophysical Journal
Evolution and instabilities of disks harboring super massive black holes
Monday, February 15th, 2010by Curir, Anna and de Romeri, Valentina and Murante, Giuseppe
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for pubblication in “Astrophysics and Space Science”
Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by 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
Accretion and Outflow in Active Galaxies
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by 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
The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments
Thursday, February 11th, 2010The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by 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
The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Centaurus A: Revealed by Gas- and Stellar Kinematics
Friday, February 5th, 2010by Neumayer, Nadine
8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA, contribution for “The Many Faces of Centaurus A” conference in Sydney, 2009
Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009
Dynamical Models of the Galactic Center
Monday, February 1st, 2010by 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
Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case
Thursday, January 28th, 2010by 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
On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes
Monday, January 25th, 2010by Hobbs, Alexander and Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
High redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects I: model description
Monday, January 25th, 2010by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Colpi, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses
Sunday, January 24th, 2010by 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”
Mass function of binary massive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, January 21st, 2010by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Ueda, Yoshihiro and Isobe, Naoki
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Gravitational recoil: effects on massive black hole occupation fraction over cosmic time
Friday, January 15th, 2010by Volonteri, Marta and Gultekin, Kayhan and Dotti, Massimo
Submitted to MNRAS
Testing MOND/TEVES with LISA Pathfinder
Monday, January 11th, 2010by Trenkel, Christian and Kemble, Steve and Bevis, Neil and Magueijo, Joao
Twin paper to arXiv:0912.0710
Measuring Black Hole Spin in OJ287
Monday, January 11th, 2010by 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
An Intermediate-mass Black Hole of Over 500 Solar Masses in the Galaxy ESO 243-49
Monday, January 11th, 2010by Farrell, Sean and Webb, Natalie and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier and Rodrigues, Joana
5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, published in Nature
Direct Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Multi-Scale Gas Inflows in Galaxy Mergers
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009by Mayer, Lucio and Kazantzidis, Stelios and Escala, Andres and Callegari, Simone
26 pages, 4 Figures, submitted to Nature (includes Supplementary Information)
How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?
Friday, December 18th, 2009by 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
The EXIST view of Super-Massive Black Holes in the Universe
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by 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
Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton’s constant with gravitational wave observations
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans and Spergel, David
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Spheroids. IV. The BH Mass – Spheroid Luminosity Relation
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by 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
Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures
Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Variability and stability in blazar jets on time scales of years: Optical polarization monitoring of OJ287 in 2005-2009
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by 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)
Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
19 pages, 14 figures
