Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses
Sunday, January 24th, 2010by 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”
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘astro-ph.GA’ Category
Mass function of binary massive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, January 21st, 2010by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Ueda, Yoshihiro and Isobe, Naoki
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
The extreme luminosity states of Sagittarius A*
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010by 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
How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?
Friday, December 18th, 2009by 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
Ring Formation from an Oscillating Black Hole
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Near infrared flares of Sagittarius A*: Importance of near infrared polarimetry
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by 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
Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures
Detection of IMBHs from microlensing in globular clusters
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Safonova, M. and Stalin, C. S.
10 pages, 11 figures, accepted in New Astronomy
The quasar M_bh – M_host relation through Cosmic Time II – Evidence for evolution from z=3 to the present age
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009by 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
Black Hole Spin and the Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy of Active Galactic Nuclei
Friday, November 13th, 2009by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ. Uses emulateapj format
The importance of precession in modelling the direction of the final spin from a black-hole merger
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009by Barausse, Enrico
5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted as proceeding of the 8th Amaldi International Conference on Gravitational Waves, NYC, 21-26 June 2009
Hyper Velocity Stars and the Restricted Parabolic 3-body Problem
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009by Sari, Re’em and Kobayashi, Shiho and Rossi, Elena M.
10 pages, 10 Figures, Apj submitted
Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic Centre
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009by Loeckmann, Ulf and Baumgardt, Holger and Kroupa, Pavel
MNRAS, accepted, 8 pages, 4 figures
Emergent Spectra From Disks Surrounding Kerr Black Holes: Effect of Photon Trapping and Disk Self-Shadowing
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009On the spatial distribution and the origin of hypervelocity stars
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009On strong mass segregation around a massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics
Monday, October 19th, 2009by Preto, Miguel and Amaro-Seoane, Pau
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJL
The orbit of the star S2 around SgrA* from VLT and Keck data
Monday, October 19th, 2009by Gillessen, S. and Eisenhauer, F. and Fritz, T. K. and Bartko, H. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Pfuhl, O. and Ott, T. and Genzel, R.
submitted to ApJL
Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves and Detection
Monday, October 12th, 2009by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto and Hoffman, Loren and Benacquista, Matthew and Eichhorn, Christoph and Makino, Junichiro and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS
Estimating Black Hole Masses in Triaxial Galaxies
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009by Bosch, Remco C. E. van den and de Zeeuw, P. Tim
Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 11 pages, 9 figures. PDFlatex
Detection of IMBHs with ground-based gravitational wave observatories: A biography of a binary of black holes, from birth to death
Monday, October 5th, 2009by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Santamaria, Lucia
Submitted to ApJ; abstract abridged, figure 1 has a lower resolution
Black hole mergers: the first light
Friday, October 2nd, 2009by Rossi, Elena M. and Lodato, G. and Armitage, P. J. and Pringle, J. E. and King, A. R.
16 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Animations of the simulations are available at http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~pja/recoil.html
Evidence for two populations of Galactic globular clusters from the ratio of their half-mass to Jacobi radii
Thursday, October 1st, 2009by Baumgardt, Holger and Parmentier, Genevieve and Gieles, Mark and Vesperini, Enrico
8 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS in press
Modeling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals within the Effective-One-Body Approach
Friday, September 25th, 2009by Yunes, Nicolas and Buonanno, Alessandra and Hughes, Scott A. and Miller, M. Coleman and Pan, Yi
4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters
Fundamental Theoretical Bias in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Tidal break-up of binary stars at the Galactic center and its consequences
Thursday, September 24th, 2009by Antonini, Fabio and Faber, Joshua and Gualandris, Alessia and Merritt, David
15 pages, 10 figures
The Distribution of Stars and Stellar Remnants at the Galactic Center
Thursday, September 24th, 2009Supercomputing and stellar dynamics
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009by Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.
Invited talk to the 2009 general Conference of the Societa’ Astronomica Italiana. 6 pages including 1 figure
Oct-tree Method on GPU
Friday, September 4th, 2009A Relationship between Supermassive Black Hole Mass and the Total Gravitational Mass of the Host Galaxy
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009by Bandara, Kaushala and Crampton, David and Simard, Luc
29 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
