No snow-plough mechanism during the rapid hardening of supermassive black hole binaries
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Baruteau, Clément and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico and Masset, Frédéric
5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
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The observed $M – \sigma$ relations imply that SMBHs grow by cold chaotic accretion
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew R.
8 pages; submitted to ApJ; version that takes referee’s comments into account
Effects of post-Newtonian Spin Alignment on the Distribution of Black-Hole Recoils
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Berti, Emanuele and Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich
12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Rapidly Accreting Supergiant Protostars: Embryos of Supermassive Black Holes?
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Hosokawa, Takashi and Omukai, Kazuyuki and Yorke, Harold W.
11 pages, 10 figures
Evolution of binary black holes in self gravitating discs: dissecting the torques
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012by Roedig, Constanze and Sesana, Alberto and Dotti, Massimo and Cuadra, Jorge and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Haardt, Francesco
14 pages, 12 Figures, submitted to MNRAS
A tidal disruption-like X-ray flare from the quiescent galaxy SDSS J120136.02+300305.5
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012by Saxton, R. D. and Read, A. M. and Esquej, P. and Komossa, S. and Dougherty, S. and Rodriguez-Pascual, P. and Barrado, D.
Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 11 pages, 11 figures
Supermassive black hole formation by the cold accretion shocks in the first galaxies
Monday, February 27th, 2012by Inayoshi, Kohei and Omukai, Kazuyuki
9 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Modelling supermassive black hole growth: towards an improved sub-grid prescription
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012by Hobbs, Alexander and Power, Chris and Nayakshin, Sergei and King, Andrew
7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Primordial seeds of supermassive black holes
Monday, February 20th, 2012by Kawasaki, Masahiro and Kusenko, Alexander and Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
12 pages, 3 figures
Cosmological Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes. II. Evidence for Downsizing of Spin Evolution
Friday, February 17th, 2012by Li, Yan-Rong and Wang, Jian-Min and Ho, Luis C.
To appear in the ApJ, 11 pages and 9 figures
Gravitational wave observations of galactic intermediate-mass black hole binaries with DECIGO Path Finder
Friday, February 17th, 2012A Chandra Survey of Supermassive Black Holes with Dynamical Mass Measurements
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Gultekin, Kayhan and Cackett, Edward M. and Miller, Jon M. and Di Matteo, Tiziana and Markoff, Sera and Richstone, Douglas O.
Accepted by ApJ. 16 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables
Supermassive black hole ancestors
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Petri, Andrea and Ferrara, Andrea and Salvaterra, Ruben
12 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, MNRAS in press
Mergers of Unequal Mass Galaxies: Supermassive Black Hole Binary Evolution and Structure of Merger Remnants
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Khan, Fazeel Mahmood and Preto, Miguel and Berczik, Peter and Berentzen, Ingo and Just, Andreas and Spurzem, Rainer
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 14 pages, 8 figures
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
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