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Accretion Onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the High-redshift Radio-loud AGN 0957+561

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3330

by Gil-Merino, Rodrigo and Goicoechea, Luis J. and Shalyapin, Vyacheslav N. and Braga, Vittorio F.
21 pages, 7 text pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal

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Massive black hole binary plane reorientation in rotating stellar systems

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3707

by Gualandris, Alessia and Dotti, Massimo and Sesana, Alberto
5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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The butterfly effect in the extreme-mass ratio inspiral problem

Monday, August 29th, 2011

arXiv:1108.5174

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Brem, Patrick and Cuadra, Jorge and Armitage, Philip J.
Submitted

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Kicking massive black holes off clusters: Intermediate-mass ratio inspirals

Monday, August 29th, 2011

arXiv:1108.5175

by Konstantinidis, Symeon and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Submitted

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Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4421

by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Lousto, Carlos O. and Campanelli, Manuela
23 pages, 35 figures, revtex4

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Testing Photometric Diagnostics for the Dynamical State and Possible IMBH presence in Globular Clusters

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4425

by Noyola, Eva and Baumgardt, Holger
Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Evolution of growing black holes in axisymmetric galaxy cores

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1108.3993

by Fiestas, Jose and Porth, Oliver and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
15 pages, 7 figures,accepted by MNRAS

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Stability of self-gravitating discs under irradiation

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1194

by Rice, W. K. M. and Armitage, P. J. and Mamatsashvili, G. R. and Lodato, G. and Clarke, C. J.
MNRAS, in press

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Dynamical Friction around Supermassive Black Holes

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1163

by Antonini, Fabio and Merritt, David
28 pages, 23 figures

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Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2270

by Brockamp, M. and Baumgardt, H. and Kroupa, P.
19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A Scaling Relation Between Megamaser Disk Radius and Black Hole Mass in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2175

by Wardle, Mark and Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad
Submitted to ApJ Letters

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Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin/Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2009

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
4 pages, 3 figures, revtex 4

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Is there a black hole in NGC 4382?

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1808

by Gultekin, Kayhan and Richstone, Douglas O. and Gebhardt, Karl and Faber, S. M. and Lauer, Tod R. and Bender, Ralf and Kormendy, John and Pinkney, Jason
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ

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Model for common growth of supermassive black holes, bulges and globular star clusters: ripping off Jeans clusters

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1697

by Nieuwenhuizen, Theo M.
5 pages latex

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Coronal radiation of a cusp of spun-up stars and the X-ray luminosity of Sgr A*

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2778

by Sazonov, S. and Sunyaev, R. and Revnivtsev, M.
16 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Kinematic signature of an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster NGC 6388

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4243

by Lützgendorf, N. and Kissler-Patig, M. and Noyola, E. and Jalali, B. and de Zeeuw, P. T. and Gebhardt, K. and Baumgardt, H.
12 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A

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Long-term evolution of massive black hole binaries. IV. Mergers of galaxies with collisionally relaxed nuclei

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4095

by Gualandris, Alessia and Merritt, David
22 pages, 23 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center?

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2923

by Lang, Meagan and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto
9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome and may be incorporated into the paper with attribution

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Perturbed stellar motions around the rotating black hole in Sgr A* for a generic orientation of its spin axis

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2916

by Iorio, Lorenzo
LaTex2e, 21 pages, 4 tables, no figures

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Assessing the redshift evolution of massive black holes and their hosts

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

arXiv:1107.1946

by Volonteri, Marta and Stark, Daniel P.
MNRAS in press

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Accretion disks around kicked black holes: Post-kick Dynamics

Monday, July 11th, 2011

arXiv:1107.1711

by Ponce, Marcelo and Faber, Joshua A. and Lombardi, James C.
Submitted to ApJ. Movies available as ‘ancillary files’

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Mergers of black-hole binaries with aligned spins: Waveform characteristics

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

arXiv:1107.1181

by Kelly, Bernard J. and Baker, John G. and Boggs, William D. and McWilliams, Sean T. and Centrella, Joan
19 pages, 17 figures

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Formation of galactic nuclei with multiple supermassive black holes at high redshifts

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0517

by Kulkarni, Girish and Loeb, Abraham
18 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables; submitted to MNRAS; comments welcome

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The mean infrared emission of SagittariusA*

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

arXiv:1106.5690

by Schoedel, R. and Morris, M. R. and Muzic, K. and Alberdi, A. and Meyer, L. and Eckart, A. and Gezari, D. Y.
accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics on 20 June 2011

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Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.3069

by Wong, Ka-Wah and Irwin, Jimmy A. and Yukita, Mihoko and Million, Evan T. and Mathews, William G. and Bregman, Joel N.
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Comparison of LISA and Atom Interferometry for Gravitational Wave Astronomy in Space

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2767

by Bender, Peter L.
Submitted to Proc. 46th Rencontres de Moriond: Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity, March 20 – 27, 2011, La Thuile, Italy

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Tidal disruptions of separated binaries in galactic nuclei

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1429

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Miller, M. Coleman and Kennedy, Gareth F.
Submitted to MNRAS

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Observational selection effects and the M-sigma relation

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1079

by Gultekin, Kayhan and Tremaine, Scott and Loeb, Abraham and Richstone, Douglas O.
8 pages, ApJ accepted

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Formation of Massive Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters. II. IMF and Primordial Mass Segregation

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

arXiv:1105.5884

by Goswami, Sanghamitra and Umbreit, Stefan and Bierbaum, Matt and Rasio, Frederic A.

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Secular theory of the orbital evolution of the young stellar disc in the Galactic Centre

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

arXiv:1105.4608

by Haas, Jaroslav and Subr, Ladislav and Vokrouhlicky, David
Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 11 pages, 6 figures

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