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Archive for the ‘astro-ph.GA’ Category
Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barranco, Juan and Bernal, Argelia and Rezzolla, Luciano
22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP
Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010by Bellovary, Jillian and Governato, Fabio and Quinn, Tom and Wadsley, James and Shen, Sijing and Volonteri, Marta
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Tidal breakup of binary stars at the Galactic Center. II. Hydrodynamic simulations
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010by Antonini, Fabio and Lombardi, James C. and Merritt, David
20 pages, 16 figures
The Globular Cluster/Central Black Hole Connection in Galaxies
Monday, August 30th, 2010by Harris, Gretchen L. H. and Harris, William E.
7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Croatian Black Hole School 2010 lecture notes on IMBHs in GCs
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Pasquato, Mario
These lecture notes are based on the series of invited lectures on IMBHs I delivered at the June 2010 Croatian Black Hole School ( organizer: Jarah Evslin, site: http://antimodave.jimdo.com )
Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries: intertwining numerical and perturbative techniques
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
31 pages, 33 figures revtex 4
A Redshift for the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate HLX-1: Confirmation of its Association with the Galaxy ESO 243-49
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Wiersema, Klaas and Farrell, Sean A. and Webb, Natalie A. and Servillat, Mathieu and Maccarone, Thomas J. and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL on 20th May 2010, accepted for publication 20th July 2010
Nuclear Star Clusters from Clustered Star Formation
Thursday, August 19th, 2010The Orbital Structure of Triaxial Galaxies with Figure Rotation
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Deibel, Alex T. and Valluri, Monica and Merritt, David
22 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to ApJ August 2010. High resolution version available at http://astro.lsa.umich.edu/~mvalluri/preprints.html
Widespread presence of shallow cusps in the surface-brightness profile of globular clusters
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Vesperini, Enrico and Trenti, Michele
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters
Rapid Flux Variability of Sgr A*
Monday, August 16th, 2010by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Wardle, M. and Miller-Jones, J. and Roberts, D. and Porquet, D. and Grosso, N.
20 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ
Study of multi black hole and ring singularity apparent horizons
Friday, August 13th, 2010Recoiling Massive Black Holes in Gas-Rich Galaxy Mergers
Friday, August 13th, 2010by Guedes, Javiera and Madau, Piero and Mayer, Lucio and Callegari, Simone
15 pages, submitted to ApJ
The two states of Sgr A* in the near-infrared: bright episodic flares on top of low-level continuous variability
Friday, August 13th, 2010by Dodds-Eden, K. and Gillessen, S. and Fritz, T. K. and Eisenhauer, F. and Trippe, S. and Genzel, R. and Ott, T. and Bartko, H. and Pfuhl, O. and Bower, G. and Goldwurm, A. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Yusef-Zadeh, F.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ
Testing GR with Galactic-centre Stars
Monday, August 9th, 2010by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit
Contributed talk in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies”, Shanghai 19-23/10/2009. To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan (4 pages, 2 figures)
Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics
Thursday, July 29th, 2010by Alexander, Tal
Invited overview lecture in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies” (Shanghai 19-23/10/2009). To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris (12 pp 5 fig)
VLT Kinematics for omega Centauri: Further Support for a Central Black Hole
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010by Noyola, Eva and Gebhardt, Karl and Kissler-Patig, Markus and Lutzgendorf, Nora and Jalali, Behrang and de Zeeuw, P. Tim and Baumgardt, Holger
5 pages, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Linear Stability Analysis and the Speed of Gravitational Waves in Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity
Friday, July 16th, 2010by Garfinkle, David and Pretorius, Frans and Yunes, Nicolas
4 pages, no figures, submitted to Rapid Communications
Towards relativistic orbit fitting of Galactic center stars and pulsars
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit and Merritt, David
20 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the ApJ
The Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Higher order moment models of dense stellar systems: Applications to the modeling of the stellar velocity distribution function
Friday, June 18th, 2010by Schneider, Justus and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome
MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters
Friday, June 18th, 2010The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster in the Center of the Milky Way
Friday, June 4th, 2010by Genzel, Reinhard and Eisenhauer, Frank and Gillessen, Stefan
submitted to Rev.Mod.Phys.,comments are welcome
Resonant relaxation and the warp of the stellar disc in the Galactic centre
Friday, June 4th, 2010Parsec-Scale Localization of the Quasar SDSS J1536+0441A, a Candidate Binary Black Hole System
Friday, April 2nd, 2010by Wrobel, J. M. and Laor, A.
6 pages; 2 figures; emulateapj.cls; to appear in ApJL
Radio observations of NGC 6388: an upper limit on the mass of its central black hole
Thursday, March 25th, 2010by Cseh, D. and Kaaret, P. and Corbel, S. and Kording, E. and Coriat, M. and Tzioumis, A. and Lanzoni, B.
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
On the Dynamics and Evolution of Gravitational Instability-Dominated Disks
Thursday, March 25th, 2010by Krumholz, Mark R. and Burkert, Andreas
14 pages, 3 figures, emulateapj format, submitted to ApJ
Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Early Globular Clusters
Friday, March 19th, 2010by Vesperini, Enrico and McMillan, Stephen L. W. and D’Ercole, Annibale and D’Antona, Francesca
4 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters
