A Fokker-Planck Study of Dense Rotating Stellar Clusters
Friday, June 29th, 2012by Girash, John
134 pages. Ph.D. dissertation (Harvard U. Dept. of Physics) 2009
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
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An upper limit to the velocity dispersion of relaxed stellar systems without massive black holes
Friday, June 29th, 2012by Miller, M. Coleman and Davies, Melvyn B.
8 pages, 2 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal
A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Simulating Collisional N-body Systems
Friday, June 29th, 2012by Pattabiraman, Bharath and Umbreit, Stefan and Liao, Wei-Keng and Choudhary, Alok and Kalogera, Vassiliki and Memik, Gokhan and Rasio, Frederic A.
47 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ Supplements
Rotating Accretion Flows: From Infinity to the Black Hole
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012by Li, Jason and Ostriker, Jeremiah and Sunyaev, Rashid
18 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ
The Nature of Hypervelocity Stars and the Time Between Their Formation and Ejection
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012by Brown, Warren R. and Cohen, Judith G. and Geller, Margaret J. and Kenyon, Scott J.
6 pages, accepted to ApJ Letters
Stellar dynamics and extreme-mass ratio inspirals
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Amaro-Seoane, Pau
160 pages, two columns. Invited review to Living Reviews in Relativity. Some parts profit from arXiv:astro-ph/0703495, although they have been significantly expanded and improved
The role of the supermassive black hole spin in the estimation of the EMRI event rate
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Freitag, Marc Dewi
Submitted. Abstract abridged
Intermediate mass black holes in AGN disks: I. Production & Growth
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by McKernan, B. and Ford, K. E. S. and Lyra, W. and Perets, H. B.
11 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS (accepted)
Secular Dynamical Anti-Friction in Galactic Nuclei
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012Fokker-Planck Models for M15 without a Central Black Hole: The Role of the Mass Function
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Murphy, Brian W. and Cohn, Haldan N. and Lugger, Phyllis M.
10 pages, 7 figures
Models of cuspy triaxial stellar systems. I. Stability and chaoticity
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012by Zorzi, Alejandra F. and Muzzio, Juan C.
10 pages, 5 figures. The Article has been submitted for publication in Monthly Notices of the RAS by the Royal Astronomical Society and Blackwell Publishing. At this time has been accepted but not yet published
Collisionless dynamics in Globular Clusters
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012by Williams, Liliya L. R. and Barnes, Eric I. and Hjorth, Jens
27 pages, 18 figures; accepted to MNRAS
No evidence for a central IMBH in M15
Monday, April 23rd, 2012by Kirsten, F. and Vlemmings, W. H. T.
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Tilted black hole accretion disc models of Sagittarius A*: time-variable millimetre to near-infrared emission
Monday, April 23rd, 2012by Dexter, Jason and Fragile, P. Chris
17 pages, 18 figures, submitted to MNRAS; for movies and version with high-res figures see http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jdexter/tiltedsgra
Stable counteralignment of a circumbinary disc
Saturday, April 21st, 2012Central kinematics of the globular cluster NGC 2808: Upper limit on the mass of an intermediate-mass black hole
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Lützgendorf, Nora and Kissler-Patig, Markus and Gebhardt, Karl and Baumgardt, Holger and Noyola, Eva and Jalali, Behrang and de Zeeuw, P. Tim and Neumayer, Nadine
12 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
The Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Center of NGC 404: New Evidence from Radio Continuum Observations
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Nyland, Kristina and Marvil, Josh and Wrobel, Joan and Young, Lisa and Zauderer, B. Ashley
Accepted for publication to ApJ
Chaotic orbits in a 3D galactic dynamical model with a double nucleus
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Caranicolas, Nicolaos D. and Zotos, Euaggelos E.
Published in Mechanics Research Communications journal
3-D Radiative Transfer Calculations of Radiation Feedback from Massive Black Holes: Outflow of Mass from the Dusty “Torus”
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Roth, Nathaniel and Kasen, Daniel and Hopkins, Philip F. and Quataert, Eliot
15 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to ApJ; v2 Corrected spelling and other small typos
Binary Disruption by Massive Black Holes: Hypervelocity Stars, S Stars, and Tidal Disruption Events
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. and Geller, Margaret J. and Brown, Warren R.
ApJ Letters, accepted; 13 pages, including 3 figures
No Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Strong Constraints from the JVLA
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Strader, Jay and Chomiuk, Laura and Maccarone, Thomas and Miller-Jones, James and Seth, Anil and Heinke, Craig and Sivakoff, Gregory
6 pages, 2 figures. ApJL in press
No snow-plough mechanism during the rapid hardening of supermassive black hole binaries
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Baruteau, Clément and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico and Masset, Frédéric
5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The S-Star Cluster at the Center of the Milky Way: On the nature of diffuse NIR emission in the inner tenth of a parsec
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Sabha, Nadeen and Eckart, Andreas and Merritt, David and Zamaninasab, Mohammad and Witzel, Gunther and García-Marín, Macarena and Jalali, Behrang and Valencia-S., Monica and Yazici, Senol and Buchholz, Rainer and Shahzamanian, Banafsheh and Straubmeier, Christian
13 pages, 11 figures, submitted to A&A
Modelling the black hole silhouette in Sgr A* with ion tori
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Straub, Odele and Vincent, Frederic H. and Abramowicz, Marek A. and Gourgoulhon, Eric and Paumard, Thibaut
11 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A & A
A star disrupted by a stellar black hole as the origin of the cloud falling towards the Galactic center
Monday, February 27th, 2012Mergers and ejections of black holes in globular clusters
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012Dynamics of secular evolution
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Binney, James
43 pages. Lectures given at the XXIII Canary islands winter school of astrophysics, November 2011 To appear in “Secular Evolution of Galaxies” ed. J. Falcon-Barroso & J.H. Knapen
A Chandra Survey of Supermassive Black Holes with Dynamical Mass Measurements
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Gultekin, Kayhan and Cackett, Edward M. and Miller, Jon M. and Di Matteo, Tiziana and Markoff, Sera and Richstone, Douglas O.
Accepted by ApJ. 16 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables
Supermassive black hole ancestors
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Petri, Andrea and Ferrara, Andrea and Salvaterra, Ruben
12 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, MNRAS in press
In situ formation of SgrA* stars via disk fragmentation: parent cloud properties and thermodynamics
Monday, February 6th, 2012by Mapelli, M. and Hayfield, T. and Mayer, L. and Wadsley, J.
16 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ