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Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4809

by 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

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On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes

Monday, January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3883

by Hobbs, Alexander and Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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High redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects I: model description

Monday, January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3874

by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Colpi, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3675

by 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”

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Mass function of binary massive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3612

by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Ueda, Yoshihiro and Isobe, Naoki
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3571

by Yuan, Feng and Bu, Defu
9 pages, 9 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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Gravitational recoil: effects on massive black hole occupation fraction over cosmic time

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1743

by Volonteri, Marta and Gultekin, Kayhan and Dotti, Massimo
Submitted to MNRAS

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Testing MOND/TEVES with LISA Pathfinder

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1303

by Trenkel, Christian and Kemble, Steve and Bevis, Neil and Magueijo, Joao
Twin paper to arXiv:0912.0710

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Measuring Black Hole Spin in OJ287

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1284

by 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

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An Intermediate-mass Black Hole of Over 500 Solar Masses in the Galaxy ESO 243-49

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.0567

by Farrell, Sean and Webb, Natalie and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier and Rodrigues, Joana
5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, published in Nature

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Direct Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Multi-Scale Gas Inflows in Galaxy Mergers

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

arXiv:0912.4262

by Mayer, Lucio and Kazantzidis, Stelios and Escala, Andres and Callegari, Simone
26 pages, 4 Figures, submitted to Nature (includes Supplementary Information)

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How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3257

by 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

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The EXIST view of Super-Massive Black Holes in the Universe

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3096

by 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

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Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton’s constant with gravitational wave observations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2724

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans and Spergel, David
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Spheroids. IV. The BH Mass – Spheroid Luminosity Relation

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4107

by 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

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Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4718

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures

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Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5711

by Krolik, Julian H.
14 pages. Ap J, in press

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Variability and stability in blazar jets on time scales of years: Optical polarization monitoring of OJ287 in 2005-2009

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0005

by 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)

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Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0087

by Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
19 pages, 14 figures

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The early evolution of massive black holes

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0525

by Volonteri, Marta
8 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 267, Co-evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies

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Identifying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0541

by Shen, Yue and Loeb, Abraham
11 pages. Submitted to MNRAS

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Measuring the spin of the primary black hole in OJ287

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.1209

by Valtonen, M. J. and Mikkola, S. and Merritt, D. and Gopakumar, A. and Lehto, H. J. and Hyvönen, T. and Rampadarath, H. and Saunders, R. and Basta, M. and Hudec, R.
12 pages, 6 figures

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Time-Dependent Models for the Afterglows of Massive Black Hole Mergers

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2054

by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Menou, Kristen
46 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes from Cosmological Simulations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2223

by Filloux, Ch. and Durier, F. and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas and Silk, J.
Talk given at the International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA 2009), Maresias, Brazil. to be published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D

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Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2345

by Shapiro, Stuart L.
9 pages, 5 figures; submitted to PRD

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The quasar M_bh – M_host relation through Cosmic Time II – Evidence for evolution from z=3 to the present age

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2988

by Decarli, R. and Falomo, R. and Treves, A. and Labita, M. and Kotilainen, J. K. and Scarpa, R.
10 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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The quasar M_bh – M_host relation through Cosmic Time I – Dataset and black hole masses

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2983

by Decarli, R. and Falomo, R. and Treves, A. and Kotilainen, J. K. and Labita, M. and Scarpa, R.
16 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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The importance of precession in modelling the direction of the final spin from a black-hole merger

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1274

by Barausse, Enrico
5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted as proceeding of the 8th Amaldi International Conference on Gravitational Waves, NYC, 21-26 June 2009

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Dual black holes in merger remnants. II: spin evolution and gravitational recoil

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5729

by Dotti, M. and Volonteri, M. and Perego, A. and Colpi, M. and Ruszkowski, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic Centre

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4960

by Loeckmann, Ulf and Baumgardt, Holger and Kroupa, Pavel
MNRAS, accepted, 8 pages, 4 figures

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