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Accretion-Driven Evolution of Black Holes: Eddington Ratios, Duty Cycles, and Active Galaxy Fractions
Thursday, November 17th, 2011by Shankar, Francesco and Weinberg, David H. and Miralda-Escude’, Jordi
27 pages, 16 Figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Constraining Dynamical Dark Energy Models through the Abundance of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes
Thursday, November 17th, 2011by Lamastra, Alessandra and Menci, Nicola and Fiore, Fabrizio and Di Porto, Cinzia and Amendola, Luca
19 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Kiloparsec-scale Spatial Offsets in Double-peaked Narrow-line AGNs. I. Markers for Selection of Compelling Dual AGN Candidates
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011by 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
Accurate Black Hole Mass Measurements for Thermal AGNs and the Origin of the Correlations Between Black Hole Mass and Bulge Properties
Thursday, November 10th, 2011by 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
No evidence of obscured, accreting black holes in most z=6 star-forming galaxies
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011Accretion onto Black Holes from Large Scales Regulated by Radiative Feedback. II. Growth Rate and Duty Cycle
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by 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
Massive black hole binaries: dynamical evolution and observational signatures
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Dotti, M. and Sesana, A. and Decarli, R.
4 Figures. Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
A Young Massive Stellar Population Around the Intermediate Mass Black Hole ESO 243-49 HLX-1
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by 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
A conservation-based method for simulating the inspiral of binary black holes
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011A practical guide to the massive black hole cosmic history
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Sesana, A.
21 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
Post-Newtonian, Quasi-Circular Binary Inspirals in Quadratic Modified Gravity
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Yagi, Kent and Stein, Leo C. and Yunes, Nicolas and Tanaka, Takahiro
26 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; submitted to PRD
Dissipationless Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Antonini, Fabio and Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto and Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra and Merritt, David
15 pages, 14 figure. Submitted to ApJ
Radiatively Inefficient Accretion: Breezes, Winds and Hyperaccretion
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Begelman, Mitchell C.
13 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Constraining Generic Lorentz Violation and the Speed of the Graviton with Gravitational Waves
Friday, October 14th, 2011by Mirshekari, Saeed and Yunes, Nicolas and Will, Clifford M.
11 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Empirical Constraints on the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Spheroids
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Li, Gongjie and Conroy, Charlie and Loeb, Abraham
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
The low-mass end of the Mbh/Mhost relation in quasars
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by 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”
Effects of supermassive binary black holes on gravitational lenses
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Li, Nan and Mao, Shude and Gao, Liang and Loeb, Abraham and Di Stefano, R.
9 pages, 5 figures
Repeated Bursts from Relativistic Scattering of Compact Objects in Galactic Nuclei
Friday, September 23rd, 2011by Kocsis, Bence and Levin, Janna
14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Accretion onto Intermediate-mass Seed Black Holes in Primordial Galaxies
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Faint high-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South: the evolution of the AGN luminosity function and black hole demography
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by 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
Selection effects in the black hole-bulge relation and its evolution
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Schulze, Andreas and Wisotzki, Lutz
20 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Hydrodynamic simulations on a moving Voronoi mesh
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by 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)
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Astrophysics
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Springel, Volker
43 pages, 11 figures, invited review that appeared in ARA&A
A Candidate Dual AGN at z=1.175
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by 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
Evidence for cosmic evolution in the spin of the most massive black holes
Monday, September 12th, 2011by 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
LBQS 0103-2753: A Binary Quasar in a Major Merger
Monday, September 12th, 2011by 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
Blindly detecting orbital modulations of jets from merging supermassive black holes
Monday, September 12th, 2011by 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
Super-massive binary black holes and emission lines in active galactic nuclei
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011by 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
The Chimera Scheme: Approximate Waveforms for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolás
RevTeX 4.1. 35 pages, 10 Figures, 3 Tables