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The Underluminous Nature of Sgr A*

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

arXiv:1003.1519

by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Wardle, M.
4 pages, To appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini

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The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0680

by Seth, Anil C. and Cappellari, Michele and Neumayer, Nadine and Caldwell, Nelson and Bastian, Nate and Olsen, Knut and Blum, Robert D. and Debattista, Victor P. and McDermid, Richard and Puzia, Thomas and Stephens, Andrew
To appear in ApJ. 21 pages, 19 figures, higher resolution PDF available at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~aseth/ngc404paper.pdf

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A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri

Monday, March 1st, 2010

arXiv:1002.5037

by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Flares from Sgr A* and their emission mechanism

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2885

by Dodds-Eden, K. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Quataert, E. and Gillessen, S. and Grosso, N. and Genzel, R. and Goldwurm, A. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Trippe, S. and Bartko, H. and Eisenhauer, F. and Ott, T. and Fritz, T. K. and Pfuhl, O.
Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

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Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2643

by Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich and Berti, Emanuele
20 pages, 16 figures, revtex

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HST Palpha Survey of the Galactic Center — Searching the missing young stellar populations within the Galactic Center

Monday, February 15th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2611

by Dong, H. and Wang, Q. D. and Cotera, A. and Stolovy, S. and Morris, M. R. and Mauerhan, J. and Mills, E. A. and Schneider, G. and Lang, C.
10 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

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Young massive star clusters

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1961

by Zwart, Simon Portegies and McMillan, Steve and Gieles, Mark
Only 88 pages. To be published in ARAA. Final version to be submitted on Friday 12 February

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The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1705

by Batcheldor, D.
ApJ Letters, accepted

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The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1703

by Feoli, A. and Mancini, L. and Marulli, F. and Bergh, S. van den
16 pages, 5 figures, to be published in a special issue of General Relativity and Gravitation

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The Eccentric Disc Instability: Dependency on Background Stellar Cluster

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1277

by Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Mass Segregation in the Galactic Centre

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1220

by Hopman, Clovis and Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Stellar disc — dynamical evolution in a perturbed potential

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0718

by Subr, Ladislav
“The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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The Impact of Stellar Collisions in the Galactic Center

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.0338

by Davies, M. B. and Church, R. P. and Malmberg, D. and Nzoke, S. and Dale, J. and Freitag, M.
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Dynamical Models of the Galactic Center

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5435

by Merritt, David
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Composition of the galactic center star cluster

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5381

by Buchholz, R. M. and Schoedel, R. and Eckart, A.
Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

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The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster in Context

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4238

by Schoedel, Rainer
Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

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Massive Young Stars in the Galactic Center

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4232

by Bartko, H.
Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

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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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The extreme luminosity states of Sagittarius A*

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1351

by Sabha, N. and Witzel, G. and Eckart, A. and Buchholz, R. M. and Bremer, M. and Giessuebel, R. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Schoedel, R. and Straubmeier, C. and Zamaninasab, M. and Zernickel, A.
18 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A

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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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Ring Formation from an Oscillating Black Hole

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4481

by Lovelace, R. V. E. and Kornreich, D. A.
7 pages, 7 figures

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Near infrared flares of Sagittarius A*: Importance of near infrared polarimetry

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4659

by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Witzel, G. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Giessuebel, R. Schoedel R. and Bremer, M. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Nishiyama, S. and Sabha, N. and Straubmeier, C. and Zensus, A.
26 pages, 38 figures, accepted for publication by A&A

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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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Detection of IMBHs from microlensing in globular clusters

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.1435

by Safonova, M. and Stalin, C. S.
10 pages, 11 figures, accepted in New Astronomy

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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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Black Hole Spin and the Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy of Active Galactic Nuclei

Friday, November 13th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2228

by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ. Uses emulateapj format

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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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Hyper Velocity Stars and the Restricted Parabolic 3-body Problem

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1136

by Sari, Re’em and Kobayashi, Shiho and Rossi, Elena M.
10 pages, 10 Figures, Apj submitted

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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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