The last GW Note is by Carlos F. Sopuerta
Archive for the ‘astro-ph.GA’ Category
On 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
An Electromagnetic Signature of Galactic Black Hole Binaries That Enter Their Gravitational-Wave Induced Inspiral
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Two phase galaxy formation: The Gas Content of Normal Galaxies
Saturday, August 29th, 2009by Cook, M. and Evoli, C. and Barausse, E. and Granato, G. L. and Lapi, A.
16 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. MNRAS submitted
Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, August 20th, 2009by Valtonen, M. J. and Mikkola, S. and Merritt, D. and Gopakumar, A. and Lehto, H. J. and Hyvönen, T. and Rampadarath, H. and Saunders, R. and Basta, M. and Hudec, R.
9 pages, 6 figures, IAU261: Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy
The Black Hole Mass and Magnetic Field Correlation in AGN: Testing by Optical Polarimetry
Thursday, August 20th, 2009by Silant’ev, N. A. and Piotrovich, M. Yu. and Gnedin, Yu. N. and Natsvlishvili, T. M.
7 pages
Role of emission angular directionality in spin determination of accreting black holes with broad iron line
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009by Svoboda, J. and Dovciak, M. and Goosmann, R. W. and Karas, V.
18 pages, 18 figures, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
The black hole mass-bulge mass correlation: bulges versus pseudo-bulges
Monday, August 17th, 2009The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The $M_{bh}$–$L_{spheroid}$ derived supermassive black hole mass function
Monday, August 17th, 2009by Vika, Marina and Driver, Simon P. and Graham, Alister W. and Liske, Jochen
10 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Nonlinear Dynamical Friction in a Gaseous Medium
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009by Kim, Hyosun and Kim, Woong-Tae
40 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole
Monday, August 10th, 2009by Alig, Christian and Burkert, Andreas and Johansson, Peter H. and Schartmann, Marc
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Binaries of massive black holes in rotating clusters: Dynamics, gravitational waves, detection and the role of eccentricity
Friday, August 7th, 2009by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Eichhorn, Christoph and Porter, Ed and Spurzem, Rainer
21 pages, 12 figs, to appear in MNRAS, abstract abridged for arxiv
Constraining the Spin of the Black Hole in Fairall 9 with Suzaku
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009by Schmoll, S. and Miller, J. M. and Volonteri, M. and Cackett, E. and Reynolds, C. S. and Fabian, A. C. and Brenneman, L. W. and Miniutti, G. and Gallo, L. C.
Accepted for publication in ApJ
Tidal effects in the vicinity of a black hole
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009by Cadez, A. and Kostic, U. and Calvani, M.
11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Zeldovich Meeting 2009, Minsk
High angular resolution integral-field spectroscopy of the Galaxy’s nuclear cluster: a missing stellar cusp?
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009by Do, Tuan and Ghez, Andrea M. and Morris, Mark R. and Lu, Jessica R. and Matthews, Keith and Yelda, Sylvana and Larkin, James
35 pages, 5 tables, 12 figures, accepted by ApJ
Polarized Emission of Sagittarius A*
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009by Huang, Lei and Liu, Siming and Shen, Zhi-Qiang and Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cai, Mike J. and Li, Hui and Fryer, Christopher L.
27 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted