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A Large Systematic Search for Recoiling and Close Supermassive Binary Black Holes

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2952

by Eracleous, Michael and Boroson, Todd A. and Halpern, Jules P. and Liu, Jia
Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplements on 10 June 2011. Version with large figures and full object list at: http://www2.astro.psu.edu/users/mce/preprints/SBHB.pdf (5 MB)

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Chandra Discovery of a Binary AGN in Mrk 739

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2163

by Koss, Michael and Mushotzky, Richard and Treister, Ezequiel and Veilleux, Sylvain and Vasudevan, Ranjan and Miller, Neal and Sanders, D. B. and Schawinski, Kevin and Trippe, Margaret
9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Tidal disruptions of separated binaries in galactic nuclei

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1429

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Miller, M. Coleman and Kennedy, Gareth F.
Submitted to MNRAS

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Chandra Observations of a 1.9 kpc Separation Double X-ray Source in a Candidate Dual AGN Galaxy at z=0.16

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.0746

by Comerford, Julia M. and Pooley, David and Gerke, Brian F. and Madejski, Greg M.
6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL

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Observational selection effects and the M-sigma relation

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1079

by Gultekin, Kayhan and Tremaine, Scott and Loeb, Abraham and Richstone, Douglas O.
8 pages, ApJ accepted

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BH masses in NLS1: the role of the broad-line region geometry

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1075

by Decarli, R. and Dotti, M. and Haardt, F. and Zibetti, S.
Proceeding of the workshop: “Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and their place in the Universe”, April 04-06, 2011, Milan

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A systematic search for massive black hole binaries in SDSS spectroscopic sample

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1180

by Tsalmantza, P. and Decarli, R. and Dotti, M. and Hogg, David W.
10 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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The mass assembly history of black holes in the Universe

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

arXiv:1105.4902

by Natarajan, Priyamvada
28 pages, 9 figures, Proceedings of the XVth Congress of Philosophy & Foundations of Science to be published by the American Institute of Physics

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Tidal Disruption Flares of Stars From Moderately Recoiled Black Holes

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

arXiv:1105.4966

by Stone, Nicholas and Loeb, Abraham
15 pages, 8 figures

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Gravitational waves from the Papaloizou-Pringle instability in black hole-torus systems

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

arXiv:1105.5035

by Kiuchi, Kenta and Shibata, Masaru and Montero, Pedro J. and Font, José A.
4 pages, 4 figure, to be published in PRL

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Mass of the black hole in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy H 0507+164 from reverberation mapping

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

arXiv:1105.1677

by Stalin, C. S. and Jeyakumar, S. and Coziol, R. and Pawase, R. S. and Thakur, S. S.
7 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Limiting eccentricity of sub-parsec massive black hole binaries surrounded by self-gravitating gas discs

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.3868

by Rödig, Constanze and Dotti, Massimo and Sesana, Alberto and Cuadra, Jorge and Colpi, Monica
10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Cosmic Train Wreck by Massive Black Holes: Discovery of a kpc-Scale Triple Active Galactic Nucleus

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

arXiv:1104.3391

by Liu, Xin and Shen, Yue and Strauss, Michael A.
ApJL submitted

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A relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

arXiv:1104.3257

by Bloom, Joshua S. and Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D. and Cenko, S. Bradley and Perley, Daniel A. and Butler, Nathaniel R. and Tanvir, Nial R. and Levan, Andrew J. and Brien, Paul T. O’ and Strubbe, Linda E. and De Colle, Fabio and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico and Lee, William H. and Nayakshin, Sergei and Quataert, Eliot and King, Andrew R. and Cucchiara, Antonino and Guillochon, James and Bower, Geoffrey C. and Fruchter, Andrew S. and Morgan, Adam N. and van der Horst, Alexander J.
Submitted, 32 pages including supplemental online material

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Observable Signatures of EMRI Black Hole Binaries Embedded in Thin Accretion Disks

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

arXiv:1104.2322

by Kocsis, Bence and Yunes, Nicolas and Loeb, Abraham
42 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Cosmography with strong lensing of LISA gravitational wave sources

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

arXiv:1104.1977

by Sereno, M. and Jetzer, Ph. and Sesana, A. and Volonteri, M.
10 pages, 10 figures, in press on MNRAS

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Supermassive Black Hole Mass Estimates Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Spectra at 0.7 < z < 2

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

arXiv:1104.1828

by Rafiee, Alireza and Hall, Patrick B.
38 Pages, 12 figures, 3 Tables, 1 hyperlink to catalogue data. Accepted for publication in ApJS

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Exploring the effects of pressure on the radial accretion of dark matter by a Schwarzschild supermassive black hole

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5497

by Guzman, F. S. and Lora-Clavijo, F. D.
9 pages, 24 eps figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A fully relativistic twisted disk around a slowly rotating Kerr black hole: derivation of dynamical equations and the shape of stationary configurations

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5739

by Zhuravlev, V. and Ivanov, P.
accepted for publication in MNRAS

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On the dynamical evolution of globular clusters. II- The isolated cluster

Friday, March 18th, 2011

arXiv:1103.3498

by Hénon, Michel
Originally published in 1965. 7 pages, 5 figures

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On the dynamical evolution of globular clusters

Friday, March 18th, 2011

arXiv:1103.3499

by Hénon, Michel
Originally published in 1961. 44 pages, 23 figures

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Constraining the coalescence rate of supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

arXiv:1103.2808

by Wen, Z. L. and Jenet, F. A. and Yardley, D. and Hobbs, G. B. and Manchester, R. N.

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Self-Regulated Star Formation and the Black Hole-Galaxy Bulge Relation

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

arXiv:1103.1702

by Power, C. and Zubovas, K. and Nayakshin, S. and King, A. R.
6 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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How important is the dark matter halo for black hole growth?

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

arXiv:1103.1644

by Volonteri, Marta and Natarajan, Priyamvada and Gultekin, Kayhan
Submitted to ApJ Letters

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Estimates of Black Hole Spin Properties of 55 Sources

Monday, March 7th, 2011

arXiv:1103.0940

by Daly, Ruth A.
13 pages; to appear in MNRAS

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Efficient Merger of Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1103.0272

by Khan, Fazeel and Just, Andreas and Merritt, David
9 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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Numerical simulation of time delay interferometry for LISA with one arm dysfunctional

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.4965

by Dhurandhar, S. V. and Ni, W. -T. and Wang, G.
16 pages, 5 figures

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Stellar Dynamics of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.3180

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford
28 pages, 16 figures

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Evidence for Black Hole Growth in Local Analogs to Lyman Break Galaxies

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

arXiv:1102.2539

by Jia, Jianjun and Ptak, Andrew and Heckman, Timothy M. and Overzier, Roderik A. and Hornschemeier, Ann and LaMassa, Stephanie M.
Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Observational constraints on the spin of the most massive black holes from radio observations

Monday, February 14th, 2011

arXiv:1102.2228

by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted for publication by MNRAS. 30 Pages, 14 Figures, 5 Tables

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