M94 As A Unique Testbed for Black Hole Mass Estimates and AGN Activity At Low Luminosities
Monday, December 19th, 2011by Constantin, Anca and Seth, Anil
11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
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Feeding compact bulges and supermassive black holes with low angular-momentum cosmic gas at high redshift
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Dubois, Yohan and Pichon, Christophe and Haehnelt, Martin and Kimm, Taysun and Slyz, Adrianne and Devriendt, Julien and Pogosyan, Dmitry
16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Do Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes Follow the Same Host-Galaxy Correlations?
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Erwin, Peter and Gadotti, Dimitri
pdflatex, 10 pages, 4 figures. Invited paper for Advances in Astronomy special issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The Growth of the Stellar Seeds of Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Johnson, Jarrett L. and Whalen, Daniel J. and Fryer, Christopher L. and Li, Hui
14 pages, 4 figures; submitted to ApJ
What Drives the Growth of Black Holes?
Monday, December 12th, 2011by Alexander, David M. and Hickox, Ryan C.
42 pages, 8 figures; Extensive review to appear in New Astronomy Reviews
Mass Functions of Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Kelly, Brandon C. and Merloni, Andrea
40 pages, 7 figures, review paper accepted for the Advances in Astronomy Special Issue “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The Cluster of Blue Stars Surrounding the M31 Nuclear Black Hole
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Lauer, Tod R. and Bender, Ralf and Kormendy, John and Rosenfield, Philip and Green, Richard F.
29 pages, 11 figures (3 color); Astrophysical Journal accepted
Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes in Spin-flip Radio Galaxies
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Liu, F. K. and Wang, Dong and Chen, Xian
47 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ
The Limited Role of Mergers in the Black Hole to Bulge Mass Relation
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Lahav, Carmit Gordon and Meiron, Yohai and Soker, Noam
10 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
The Cosmic History of Black Hole Growth from Deep Multiwavelength Surveys
Monday, December 5th, 2011by Treister, Ezequiel and Urry, C. Megan
33 pages, 20 figures, review paper accepted for the Advances in Astronomy Special Issue “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The stochastic background from cosmic (super)strings: popcorn and (Gaussian) continuous regimes
Thursday, December 1st, 2011by Regimbau, Tania and Giampanis, Stefanos and Siemens, Xavier and Mandic, Vuk
21 pages, 11 figures, submitted to PRD
Evidence for Three Accreting Black Holes in a Galaxy at z~1.35: A Snapshot of Recently Formed Black Hole Seeds?
Thursday, December 1st, 2011by Schawinski, Kevin and Urry, Meg and Treister, Ezequiel and Simmons, Brooke and Natarajan, Priyamvada and Glikman, Eilat
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
The First Galaxies: Assembly with Black Hole Feedback
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011by Jeon, Myoungwon and Pawlik, Andreas H. and Greif, Thomas H. and Glover, Simon C. O. and Bromm, Volker and Milosavljevic, Milos and Klessen, Ralf S.
17 pages, 14 figures
The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio
Thursday, November 24th, 2011by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Tiec, Alexandre Le
11 pages, 2 figures
Photon Trapping Enables Super-Eddington Growth of Black-Hole Seeds in Galaxies at High Redshift
Thursday, November 24th, 2011Accretion-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