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Photon Trapping Enables Super-Eddington Growth of Black-Hole Seeds in Galaxies at High Redshift

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5424

by Wyithe, Stuart and Loeb, Abraham
10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Accretion-Driven Evolution of Black Holes: Eddington Ratios, Duty Cycles, and Active Galaxy Fractions

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3574

by Shankar, Francesco and Weinberg, David H. and Miralda-Escude’, Jordi
27 pages, 16 Figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Constraining Dynamical Dark Energy Models through the Abundance of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3800

by Lamastra, Alessandra and Menci, Nicola and Fiore, Fabrizio and Di Porto, Cinzia and Amendola, Luca
19 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS

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Kiloparsec-scale Spatial Offsets in Double-peaked Narrow-line AGNs. I. Markers for Selection of Compelling Dual AGN Candidates

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.2862

by Comerford, Julia M. and Gerke, Brian F. and Stern, Daniel and Cooper, Michael C. and Weiner, Benjamin J. and Newman, Jeffrey A. and Harrison, Fiona and Madsen, Kristin and Barrows, R. Scott
11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Accurate Black Hole Mass Measurements for Thermal AGNs and the Origin of the Correlations Between Black Hole Mass and Bulge Properties

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

arXiv:1111.2067

by Gaskell, C. Martin
SF2A-2011: Proceedings of the 2011 annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics. G. Alecian, K. Belkacem, S. Collin, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud (eds), p. 573. 6 pages, 4 figures

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No evidence of obscured, accreting black holes in most z=6 star-forming galaxies

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4118

by Willott, Chris J.
4 pages, 2 figures, ApJ Letters, in press

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Accretion onto Black Holes from Large Scales Regulated by Radiative Feedback. II. Growth Rate and Duty Cycle

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4634

by Park, KwangHo and Ricotti, Massimo
27 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ, for associated mpeg files, see http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kpark/research.html

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Massive black hole binaries: dynamical evolution and observational signatures

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1111.0664

by Dotti, M. and Sesana, A. and Decarli, R.
4 Figures. Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy

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A Young Massive Stellar Population Around the Intermediate Mass Black Hole ESO 243-49 HLX-1

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6510

by Farrell, S. and Servillat, M. and Pforr, J. and Maccarone, T. and Knigge, C. and Godet, O. and Maraston, C. and Webb, N. and Barret, D. and Gosling, A. and Belmont, R. and Wiersema, K.
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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A conservation-based method for simulating the inspiral of binary black holes

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6491

by Meiron, Yohai and Laor, Ari
12 pages, 9 figures

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A practical guide to the massive black hole cosmic history

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6445

by Sesana, A.
21 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy

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Post-Newtonian, Quasi-Circular Binary Inspirals in Quadratic Modified Gravity

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5950

by Yagi, Kent and Stein, Leo C. and Yunes, Nicolas and Tanaka, Takahiro
26 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; submitted to PRD

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Dissipationless Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5937

by Antonini, Fabio and Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto and Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra and Merritt, David
15 pages, 14 figure. Submitted to ApJ

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Radiatively Inefficient Accretion: Breezes, Winds and Hyperaccretion

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5356

by Begelman, Mitchell C.
13 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Constraining Generic Lorentz Violation and the Speed of the Graviton with Gravitational Waves

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2720

by Mirshekari, Saeed and Yunes, Nicolas and Will, Clifford M.
11 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Empirical Constraints on the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Spheroids

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.0017

by Li, Gongjie and Conroy, Charlie and Loeb, Abraham
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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The low-mass end of the Mbh/Mhost relation in quasars

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.1487

by Decarli, Roberto and Falomo, Renato and Kotilainen, Jari K. and Hyvonen, Tomi and Uslenghi, Michela and Treves, Aldo
Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy. To appear in the special issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”

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Effects of supermassive binary black holes on gravitational lenses

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.0887

by Li, Nan and Mao, Shude and Gao, Liang and Loeb, Abraham and Di Stefano, R.
9 pages, 5 figures

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Repeated Bursts from Relativistic Scattering of Compact Objects in Galactic Nuclei

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1109.4170

by Kocsis, Bence and Levin, Janna
14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Accretion onto Intermediate-mass Seed Black Holes in Primordial Galaxies

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3442

by Li, Yuexing
8 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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Faint high-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South: the evolution of the AGN luminosity function and black hole demography

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2888

by Fiore, F. and Puccetti, S. and Grazian, A. and Menci, N. and Shankar, F. and Santini, P. and Piconcelli, E. and Koekemoer, A. M. and Fontana, A. and Boutsia, K. and Castellano, M. and Lamastra, A. and Malacaria, C. and Feruglio, C. and Mathur, S. and Miller, N. and Pannella, M.
A&A in press

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Selection effects in the black hole-bulge relation and its evolution

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2787

by Schulze, Andreas and Wisotzki, Lutz
20 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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Hydrodynamic simulations on a moving Voronoi mesh

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2218

by Springel, Volker
35 pages, 10 figures; invited review for the volume “Tessellations in the Sciences: Virtues, Techniques and Applications of Geometric Tilings”, eds. R. van de Weijgaert, G. Vegter, J. Ritzerveld and V. Icke, Springer (accepted)

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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Astrophysics

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2219

by Springel, Volker
43 pages, 11 figures, invited review that appeared in ARA&A

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A Candidate Dual AGN at z=1.175

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3469

by Barrows, R. Scott and Stern, Daniel and Madsen, Kristin and Harrison, Fiona and Assef, Roberto J. and Comerford, Julia M. and Cushing, Michael C. and Fassnacht, Christopher D. and Gonzalez, Anthony and Griffith, Roger and Hickox, Ryan and Kirkpatrick, J. Davy and Lagattuta, David J.
18 pages and 9 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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Evidence for cosmic evolution in the spin of the most massive black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0997

by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted by MNRAS. 6 pages, 3 colour figures. Supplementary material can be found at: http://research.icg.port.ac.uk/~martinea/spin_suppl_fig.pdf

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LBQS 0103-2753: A Binary Quasar in a Major Merger

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1524

by Shields, G. A. and Rosario, D. J. and Junkkarinen, V. and Chapman, S. C. and Bonning, E. W. and Chiba, T.
14 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal

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Blindly detecting orbital modulations of jets from merging supermassive black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1050

by O’Shaughnessy, R. and Kaplan, D. L. and Sesana, A. and Kamble, A.
Submitted to ApJ. v1 original submission; v2 minor changes in response to referee

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Super-massive binary black holes and emission lines in active galactic nuclei

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0710

by Popovic, Luka C.
The work was presented as an invited talk at special workshop “Spectral lines and super-massive black holes” held on June 10, 2011 as a part of activity within the frame of COST action 0905 “Black holes in a violent universe” and as a part of the 8th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics.Sent to New Astronomy Review as a review paper

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The Chimera Scheme: Approximate Waveforms for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0572

by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolás
RevTeX 4.1. 35 pages, 10 Figures, 3 Tables

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