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Emergent Spectra From Disks Surrounding Kerr Black Holes: Effect of Photon Trapping and Disk Self-Shadowing

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3530

by Li, Guang-Xing and Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cao, Xinwu
15 pages, 13 figures

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On the spatial distribution and the origin of hypervelocity stars

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3260

by Lu, Youjun and Zhang, Fupeng and Yu, Qingjuan
7 pages, 5 figures

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On strong mass segregation around a massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

Monday, October 19th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3206

by Preto, Miguel and Amaro-Seoane, Pau
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, submitted to ApJL

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The orbit of the star S2 around SgrA* from VLT and Keck data

Monday, October 19th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3069

by 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

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Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves and Detection

Monday, October 12th, 2009

arXiv:0910.1587

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto and Hoffman, Loren and Benacquista, Matthew and Eichhorn, Christoph and Makino, Junichiro and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS

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Estimating Black Hole Masses in Triaxial Galaxies

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0844

by Bosch, Remco C. E. van den and de Zeeuw, P. Tim
Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 11 pages, 9 figures. PDFlatex

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Detection of IMBHs with ground-based gravitational wave observatories: A biography of a binary of black holes, from birth to death

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0254

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Santamaria, Lucia
Submitted to ApJ; abstract abridged, figure 1 has a lower resolution

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Black hole mergers: the first light

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.0002

by 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

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Evidence for two populations of Galactic globular clusters from the ratio of their half-mass to Jacobi radii

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

arXiv:0909.5696

by Baumgardt, Holger and Parmentier, Genevieve and Gieles, Mark and Vesperini, Enrico
8 pages, 4 figures, MNRAS in press

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Modeling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals within the Effective-One-Body Approach

Friday, September 25th, 2009

arXiv:0909.4263

by 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

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Fundamental Theoretical Bias in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and the Parameterized Post-Einsteinian Framework

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.3328

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans
25 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Tidal break-up of binary stars at the Galactic center and its consequences

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.1959

by Antonini, Fabio and Faber, Joshua and Gualandris, Alessia and Merritt, David
15 pages, 10 figures

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The Distribution of Stars and Stellar Remnants at the Galactic Center

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.1318

by Merritt, David
22 pages, 18 figures

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Supercomputing and stellar dynamics

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0879

by Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.
Invited talk to the 2009 general Conference of the Societa’ Astronomica Italiana. 6 pages including 1 figure

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Oct-tree Method on GPU

Friday, September 4th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0541

by Nakasato, N.
Poster paper to be appeared in SC09

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A Relationship between Supermassive Black Hole Mass and the Total Gravitational Mass of the Host Galaxy

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

arXiv:0909.0269

by Bandara, Kaushala and Crampton, David and Simard, Luc
29 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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An Electromagnetic Signature of Galactic Black Hole Binaries That Enter Their Gravitational-Wave Induced Inspiral

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

arXiv:0909.0261

by Loeb, Abraham
3 pages

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Two phase galaxy formation: The Gas Content of Normal Galaxies

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4115

by Cook, M. and Evoli, C. and Barausse, E. and Granato, G. L. and Lapi, A.
16 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. MNRAS submitted

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Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2706

by 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

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The Black Hole Mass and Magnetic Field Correlation in AGN: Testing by Optical Polarimetry

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2725

by Silant’ev, N. A. and Piotrovich, M. Yu. and Gnedin, Yu. N. and Natsvlishvili, T. M.
7 pages

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Role of emission angular directionality in spin determination of accreting black holes with broad iron line

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2387

by Svoboda, J. and Dovciak, M. and Goosmann, R. W. and Karas, V.
18 pages, 18 figures, accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The black hole mass-bulge mass correlation: bulges versus pseudo-bulges

Monday, August 17th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2028

by Hu, Jian
22 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The $M_{bh}$–$L_{spheroid}$ derived supermassive black hole mass function

Monday, August 17th, 2009

arXiv:0908.2102

by Vika, Marina and Driver, Simon P. and Graham, Alister W. and Liske, Jochen
10 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS

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Nonlinear Dynamical Friction in a Gaseous Medium

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

arXiv:0908.1391

by Kim, Hyosun and Kim, Woong-Tae
40 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

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Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole

Monday, August 10th, 2009

arXiv:0908.1100

by Alig, Christian and Burkert, Andreas and Johansson, Peter H. and Schartmann, Marc
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Binaries of massive black holes in rotating clusters: Dynamics, gravitational waves, detection and the role of eccentricity

Friday, August 7th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0755

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Eichhorn, Christoph and Porter, Ed and Spurzem, Rainer
21 pages, 12 figs, to appear in MNRAS, abstract abridged for arxiv

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Constraining the Spin of the Black Hole in Fairall 9 with Suzaku

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0013

by 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

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Tidal effects in the vicinity of a black hole

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0117

by Cadez, A. and Kostic, U. and Calvani, M.
11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Zeldovich Meeting 2009, Minsk

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High angular resolution integral-field spectroscopy of the Galaxy’s nuclear cluster: a missing stellar cusp?

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0311

by 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

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Polarized Emission of Sagittarius A*

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5463

by 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

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