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The spatial and velocity distributions of hypervelocity stars

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

arXiv:1105.1432

by Zhang, Fupeng and Lu, Youjun and Yu, Qingjuan
19 pages, 16 figures

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Constraints on the black hole spin in the quasar SDSS J094533.99+100950.1

Friday, April 15th, 2011

arXiv:1104.2734

by Czerny, Bozena and Hryniewicz, Krzysztof and Nikolajuk, Marek and Sadowski, Aleksander

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Observable Signatures of EMRI Black Hole Binaries Embedded in Thin Accretion Disks

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

arXiv:1104.2322

by Kocsis, Bence and Yunes, Nicolas and Loeb, Abraham
42 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Exploring the effects of pressure on the radial accretion of dark matter by a Schwarzschild supermassive black hole

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5497

by Guzman, F. S. and Lora-Clavijo, F. D.
9 pages, 24 eps figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Stellar Dynamics and Black Holes

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5446

by Merritt, David
Talk presented at the “Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference” (2010)

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On the dynamical evolution of globular clusters. II- The isolated cluster

Friday, March 18th, 2011

arXiv:1103.3498

by Hénon, Michel
Originally published in 1965. 7 pages, 5 figures

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On the dynamical evolution of globular clusters

Friday, March 18th, 2011

arXiv:1103.3499

by Hénon, Michel
Originally published in 1961. 44 pages, 23 figures

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Constraining the coalescence rate of supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

arXiv:1103.2808

by Wen, Z. L. and Jenet, F. A. and Yardley, D. and Hobbs, G. B. and Manchester, R. N.

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How important is the dark matter halo for black hole growth?

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

arXiv:1103.1644

by Volonteri, Marta and Natarajan, Priyamvada and Gultekin, Kayhan
Submitted to ApJ Letters

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Observability of pulsar beam bending by the Sgr~A* black hole

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

arXiv:1102.5470

by Stovall, Kevin and Creighton, Teviet and Price, Richard H. and Jenet, Fredrick A.
18 pages, 16 figures

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Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.4855

by Preto, Miguel and Berentzen, Ingo and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Submitted to ApJL

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On minor black holes in galactic nuclei

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0260

by McKernan, Barry and Ford, K. E. Saavik and Yaqoob, Tahir and Winter, Lisa M.
6 pages. MNRAS Letters (accepted)

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Growing Massive Black Holes in a Local Group Environment: the Central Supermassive, Slowly Sinking, and Ejected Populations

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0327

by Micic, Miroslav and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Sigurdsson, Steinn
25 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Physics of Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0262

by Cen, Renyue
29 pages, 3 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter halos of galaxies

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

arXiv:1101.4650

by Kormendy, John and Bender, Ralf
12 pages, 9 Postscript figures, 1 table; published in Nature (20 January 2011)

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A New Catalog of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.3224

by Harris, William E.
6 pages, 4 figures

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Tidal stellar disruptions by massive black hole pairs: II. Decaying binaries

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.4466

by Chen, Xian and Sesana, Alberto and Madau, Piero and Liu, Fukun
16 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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The Status of Black-Hole Binary Merger Simulations with Numerical Relativity

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.2872

by McWilliams, Sean T.
Invited review for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, CQG special issue – 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

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Forced motion near black holes

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.5111

by Gair, Jonathan R. and Flanagan, Eanna E. and Drasco, Steve and Hinderer, Tanja and Babak, Stanislav
27 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Numerical Parameter Survey of Nonradiative Black Hole Accretion — Flow Structure and Variability of the Rotation Measure

Friday, November 26th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5498

by Pang, Bijia and Pen, Ue-Li and Matzner, Christopher D. and Green, Stephen R. and Liebendörfer, Matthias

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Performance of astrometric detection of a hotspot orbiting on the innermost stable circular orbit of the galactic centre black hole

Friday, November 26th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5439

by Vincent, F. H. and Paumard, T. and Perrin, G. and Mugnier, L. and Eisenhauer, F. and Gillessen, S.
13 pages, 11 figures ; accepted by MNRAS

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Fractal Geometry of Angular Momentum Evolution in Near-Keplerian Systems

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5226

by Gürkan, M. Atakan
5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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Color Behavior Of BL Lacertae Object OJ 287 During Optical Outburst

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

arXiv:1011.4989

by Dai, Yan and Wu, Jianghua and Zhu, Zong-Hong and Zhou, Xu and Ma, Jun
25 pages, 13 figures

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Massive black holes in stellar systems: ‘quiescent’ accretion and luminosity

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1011.4311

by Volonteri, Marta and Dotti, Massimo and Campbell, Duncan and Mateo, Mario
Submitted to ApJ

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The coupling of a young stellar disc with the molecular torus in the Galactic centre

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.3815

by Haas, Jaroslav and Subr, Ladislav and Kroupa, Pavel
Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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A Very Close Binary Black Hole in a Giant Elliptical Galaxy 3C 66B and its Black Hole Merger

Friday, November 12th, 2010

arXiv:1011.2647

by Iguchi, Satoru and Okuda, Takeshi and Sudou, Hiroshi
5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Modeling maximum astrophysical gravitational recoil velocities

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1011.0593

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
8 pages, 7 figures, revtex4

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The impact of realistic models of mass segregation on the event rate of extreme-mass ratio inspirals and cusp re-growth

Friday, October 29th, 2010

arXiv:1010.5781

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Preto, Miguel
Submitted to Class. Quantum Grav.; based on the invited plenary talk of P. Amaro-Seoane at the LISA Symposium 2010

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The Effect of Massive Perturbers on Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspiral Waveforms

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1721

by Yunes, Nicolas and Miller, M. Coleman and Thornburg, Jonathan
9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Secular Stellar Dynamics near a Massive Black Hole

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1535

by Madigan, Ann-Marie and Hopman, Clovis and Levin, Yuri
22 pages, 27 figures, submitted to ApJ

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