A Close Nuclear Black Hole Pair in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393
Monday, September 5th, 2011by Fabbiano, G. and Junfeng, Wang and Elvis, M. and Risaliti, G.
Preprint (not final) version of a paper to appear in Nature
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Testing black hole no-hair theorem with OJ287
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011by Valtonen, M. J. and Mikkola, S. and Lehto, H. J. and Gopakumar, A. and Hudec, R. and Polednikova, J.
14 pages, 14 figures
The butterfly effect in the extreme-mass ratio inspiral problem
Monday, August 29th, 2011by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Brem, Patrick and Cuadra, Jorge and Armitage, Philip J.
Submitted
Kicking massive black holes off clusters: Intermediate-mass ratio inspirals
Monday, August 29th, 2011by Konstantinidis, Symeon and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Submitted
Reverberation Mapping of the Intermediate Mass Nuclear Black Hole in SDSS J114008.71+030711.4
Thursday, August 25th, 2011by Rafter, Stephen and Kaspi, Shai and Behar, Ehud and Kollatschny, Wolfram and Zetzl, Matthias
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 21 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Lousto, Carlos O. and Campanelli, Manuela
23 pages, 35 figures, revtex4
Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS, submitted
Self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes by a dual jet/heating AGN feedback mechanism: methods, tests and implications for cosmological simulations
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Dubois, Yohan and Devriendt, Julien and Slyz, Adrianne and Teyssier, Romain
24 pages, 18 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS
Black holes of intermediate masses in globular clusters: constraints on a spin of a black hole
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Buliga, S. D. and Globina, V. I. and Gnedin, Yu. N. and Natsvlishvili, T. M. and Piotrovich, M. Yu. and Shaht, N. A.
4 pages
A Scaling Relation Between Megamaser Disk Radius and Black Hole Mass in Active Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin/Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Is there a black hole in NGC 4382?
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Gultekin, Kayhan and Richstone, Douglas O. and Gebhardt, Karl and Faber, S. M. and Lauer, Tod R. and Bender, Ralf and Kormendy, John and Pinkney, Jason
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ
Model for common growth of supermassive black holes, bulges and globular star clusters: ripping off Jeans clusters
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Starburst Galaxies over Cosmic Time: Constraints from the Deepest Chandra Fields
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Rafferty, D. A. and Brandt, W. N. and Alexander, D. M. and Xue, Y. Q. and Bauer, F. E. and Lehmer, B. D. and Luo, B. and Papovich, C.
25 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
The gravitational-wave memory from eccentric binaries
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Relativistic collapse and explosion of rotating supermassive stars with thermonuclear effects
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Montero, Pedro J. and Janka, Hans-Thomas and Mueller, Ewald
12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Coalescence Rate of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Derived from Cosmological Simulations: Detection Rates for LISA and ET
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Filloux, Ch. and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas and Durier, F. and de Araujo, J. C. N.
18 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the IJMPD
The mass function of black holes at 1<z<4.5: comparison of models with observations
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011by Natarajan, Priyamvada and Volonteri, Marta
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Graviton mass bounds from space-based gravitational-wave observations of massive black hole populations
Thursday, July 21st, 2011by Berti, Emanuele and Gair, Jonathan and Sesana, Alberto
5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Electromagnetic counterparts of supermassive black hole binaries resolved by pulsar timing arrays
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltán and Menou, Kristen
16 pages with 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Multimessenger astronomy with pulsar timing and X-ray observations of massive black hole binaries
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Sesana, A. and Roedig, C. and Reynolds, M. T. and Dotti, M.
19 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center?
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Lang, Meagan and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto
9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome and may be incorporated into the paper with attribution
Assessing the redshift evolution of massive black holes and their hosts
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Accretion disks around kicked black holes: Post-kick Dynamics
Monday, July 11th, 2011by Ponce, Marcelo and Faber, Joshua A. and Lombardi, James C.
Submitted to ApJ. Movies available as ‘ancillary files’
The case for testing MOND using LISA Pathfinder
Thursday, July 7th, 20113C390.3: More Stable Evidence for Origination of Double-Peaked Broad Balmer Lines from Accretion Disk Near Central Black Hole
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011Detection of jet precession in the active nucleus of M81
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011by Marti-Vidal, I. and Marcaide, J. M. and Alberdi, A. and Perez-Torres, M. A. and Ros, E. and Guirado, J. C.
16 pages; 13 figures; 8 tables. Submitted to A&A
Formation of galactic nuclei with multiple supermassive black holes at high redshifts
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011by Kulkarni, Girish and Loeb, Abraham
18 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables; submitted to MNRAS; comments welcome
SMBH Formation via Gas Accretion in Nuclear Stellar Clusters
Thursday, June 30th, 2011by Davies, Melvyn B. and Miller, M. Coleman and Bellovary, Jillian M.
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ letters
Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by Wong, Ka-Wah and Irwin, Jimmy A. and Yukita, Mihoko and Million, Evan T. and Mathews, William G. and Bregman, Joel N.
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters