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How well do STARLAB and NBODY compare? II: Hardware and accuracy

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5692

by Anders, P. and Baumgardt, H. and Gaburov, E. and Zwart, S. Portegies
14 pages incl. 3 pages with figures and 4 pages of tables (analysis results), MNRAS in press

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Gravitational-wave emission from compact Galactic binaries

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

arXiv:1201.4613

by Nissanke, Samaya and Vallisneri, Michele and Nelemans, Gijs and Prince, Thomas A.
17 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables, to be submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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Interaction of Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes with Stars in Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

arXiv:1201.3407

by Li, Shuo and Liu, F. K. and Berczik, Peter and Chen, Xian and Spurzem, Rainer
38 pages, 10 figues; accepted for publication in ApJ

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Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1923

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef and Dotti, Massimo and Volonteri, Marta
17 pages, 10 tables, 14 figures, revtex 4

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Clearing Out a Galaxy

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.0866

by Zubovas, Kastytis and King, Andrew R.
6 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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Masses of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes with Very-Long Baseline Interferometry

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.0758

by Johannsen, Tim and Psaltis, Dimitrios and Gillessen, Stefan and Marrone, Daniel P. and Ozel, Feryal and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Fish, Vincent L.
7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted to ApJ

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A dynamical study of Galactic globular clusters under different relaxation conditions

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1466

by Zocchi, A. and Bertin, G. and Varri, A. L.
18 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Physics of the Galactic Center Cloud G2, on its Way towards the Super-Massive Black Hole

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1414

by Burkert, Andreas and Schartmann, Mark and Alig, Christian and Gillessen, Stefan and Genzel, Reinhard and Fritz, Tobias and Eisenhauer, Frank
22 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Chaotic mixing and the secular evolution of triaxial cuspy galaxy models built with Schwarzschild’s method

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

arXiv:1201.0667

by Vasiliev, E. and Athanassoula, E.
13 pages, 10 figures

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Non-Thermal Insights on Mass and Energy Flows Through the Galactic Centre and into the Fermi Bubbles

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

arXiv:1112.6247

by Crocker, Roland M.
30 pages, 35 figures

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MOCCA Code for Star Cluster Simulations – II. Comparison with N-body Simulations

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

arXiv:1112.6246

by Giersz, Mirek and Heggie, Douglas C. and Hurley, Jarrod and Hypki, Arkadiusz
15 pages, 24 figures

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Implementation of a Parallel Tree Method on a GPU

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4539

by Nakasato, Naohito
Journal of Computational Science, 2011; See our recent update at http://galaxy.u-aizu.ac.jp/trac/note/wiki/Octree_On_GPU

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A gas cloud on its way towards the super-massive black hole in the Galactic Centre

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

arXiv:1112.3264

by Gillessen, S. and Genzel, R. and Fritz, T. K. and Quataert, E. and Alig, C. and Burkert, A. and Cuadra, J. and Eisenhauer, F. and Pfuhl, O. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Gammie, C. F. and Ott, T.
in press at Nature

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What Drives the Growth of Black Holes?

Monday, December 12th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1949

by Alexander, David M. and Hickox, Ryan C.
42 pages, 8 figures; Extensive review to appear in New Astronomy Reviews

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Prospects for Probing the Spacetime of Sgr A* with Pulsars

Monday, December 12th, 2011

arXiv:1112.2151

by Liu, K. and Wex, N. and Kramer, M. and Cordes, J. M. and Lazio, T. J. W.
12 pages, 10 Figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Surviving the hole I: Spatially resolved chemistry around Sgr A*

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

arXiv:1112.0566

by Martín, S. and Martín-Pintado, J. and Montero-Castaño, M. and Ho, P. T. P. and Blundell, R.
12 pages, 22 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5610

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Tiec, Alexandre Le
11 pages, 2 figures

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A Dynamical N-body Model for the Central Region of $\omega$ Centauri

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1111.5011

by Jalali, B. and Baumgardt, H. and Kissler-Patig, M. and Gebhardt, K. and Noyola, E. and Lützgendorf, N. and de Zeeuw, P. T.
Accepted for publication in A&A

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Modeling multipolar gravitational-wave emission from small mass-ratio mergers

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3081

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Hughes, Scott A. and Khanna, Gaurav and O’Sullivan, Stephen and Pan, Yi
19 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables

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A new type of compact stellar population: dark star clusters

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4103

by Banerjee, Sambaran and Kroupa, Pavel
14 pages, 4 figures. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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The scaling relation between the mass of supermassive black holes and the kinetic energy of random motions of the host galaxies

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3542

by Mancini, Luigi and Feoli, Antonio
11 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Counter-rotating stellar discs around a massive black hole: self-consistent, time-dependent dynamics

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4588

by Touma, Jihad R. and Sridhar, S.
41 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to MNRAS

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Sgr A* flares: tidal disruption of asteroids and planets?

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6872

by Zubovas, Kastytis and Nayakshin, Sergei and Markoff, Sera
11 pages. MNRAS submitted

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Dissipationless Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5937

by Antonini, Fabio and Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto and Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra and Merritt, David
15 pages, 14 figure. Submitted to ApJ

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Empirical Constraints on the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Spheroids

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.0017

by Li, Gongjie and Conroy, Charlie and Loeb, Abraham
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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Polarimetric Imaging of Sgr A* in its Flaring State

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6736

by Melia, Fulvio and Falanga, Maurizio and Goldwurm, Andrea
Accepted for Publication in MNRAS, September 26, 2011

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Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6660

by Stone, Nicholas and Loeb, Abraham
4 pages, 4 figures

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Towards constraining the central black hole’s properties by studying its infrared flares with the GRAVITY instrument

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.0746

by Vincent, F. H. and Paumard, T. and Perrin, G. and Gourgoulhon, E. and Eisenhauer, F. and Gillessen, S.
5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SF2A)

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Galactic Centre star formation: the case of the missing gas disc

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1109.4148

by Alexander, R. D. and Smedley, S. L. and Nayakshin, S. and King, A. R.
7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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HST Observations of the Stellar Distribution Near Sgr A*

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2175

by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Bushouse, H. and Wardle, M.
16 pages, 7 figures, ApJ, in press

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