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EM counterparts of recoiling black holes: general relativistic simulations of non-Keplerian discs

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.4185

by Zanotti, Olindo and Rezzolla, Luciano and Del Zanna, Luca and Palenzuela, Carlos
17 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS, movies available at http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/Visualisations/Archive/BinaryBlackHoles/EMCounterparts/EMCounterparts.html

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Evolution of massive black hole spins

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3827

by Volonteri, Marta
10 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the conference “Accretion and ejection in AGN: a global view” (Como, 22-26 June 2009)

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Chandra and Swift Follow-up Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in ESO243-49

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3625

by Webb, N. A. and Barret, D. and Godet, O. and Servillat, M. and Farrell, S. A. and Oates, S. R.
10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL on 12/02/2010

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Connections Between Local and Global Turbulence in Accretion Disks

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3611

by Sorathia, Kareem A. and Reynolds, Christopher S. and Armitage, Philip J.
8 Pages, 7 Figures ApJ, In Press

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Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1

Friday, February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3404

by Farrell, S. A. and Servillat, M. and Oates, S. R. and Heywood, I. and Godet, O. and Webb, N. A. and Barret, D.
4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted 11th of Feb 2010. Contributed talk to appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini

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Flares from Sgr A* and their emission mechanism

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2885

by Dodds-Eden, K. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Quataert, E. and Gillessen, S. and Grosso, N. and Genzel, R. and Goldwurm, A. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Trippe, S. and Bartko, H. and Eisenhauer, F. and Ott, T. and Fritz, T. K. and Pfuhl, O.
Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

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Accretion and Outflow in Active Galaxies

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1808

by King, Andrew
invited review, IAU Symposium 267, Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, B.M. Peterson, R.S. Somerville, and T. Storchi-Bergmann, eds typos in eq (2.2) corrected

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Numerical Models of Sgr A*

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1261

by Moscibrodzka, M. and Gammie, C. F. and Dolence, J. and Shiokawa, H. and Leung, P. K.
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5451

by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009

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Magnetic Connection Model for Launching Relativistic Jets from a Kerr Black Hole

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5434

by Dutan, Ioana
12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4809

by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Hawley, John F.
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 52 pages, 38 figures, AASTEX. High-resolution versions can be found at the following links: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.ps, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.pdf

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On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes

Monday, January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3883

by Hobbs, Alexander and Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3571

by Yuan, Feng and Bu, Defu
9 pages, 9 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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Measuring Black Hole Spin in OJ287

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1284

by Valtonen, M. and Mikkola, S. and Lehto, H. J. and Hyvönen, T. and Nilsson, K. and Merritt, D. and Gopakumar, A. and Rampadarath, H. and Hudec, R. and Basta, M. and Saunders, R.
12 pages, 4 figures, IAU261

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An Intermediate-mass Black Hole of Over 500 Solar Masses in the Galaxy ESO 243-49

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.0567

by Farrell, Sean and Webb, Natalie and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier and Rodrigues, Joana
5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, published in Nature

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How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3257

by 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

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Inflow-Outflow Solution with Stellar Winds and Conduction near Sgr A*

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3255

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Baganoff, Frederick K.
3 pages, 2 figures; to be published in “The Galactic Center: a Window to the Nuclear Activity of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris et al., Astron. Soc. Pacific, 2010

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The EXIST view of Super-Massive Black Holes in the Universe

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3096

by Della Ceca, Roberto and Ghisellini, Gabriele and Tagliaferri, Gianpiero and Foschini, Luigi and Pareschi, Giovanni and Tavecchio, Fabrizio and Coppi, Paolo and Grindlay, Josh E. and Fiocchi, Maria Teresa and Natalucci, Lorenzo and Panessa, Francesca and Ubertini, Pietro
6 pages, 2 figures. Proc. of Workshop “The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV”, Otranto (Lecce) Italy, October 13-17, 2009 Proceedings of Science, http://pos.sissa.it. Submitted version

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Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton’s constant with gravitational wave observations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2724

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans and Spergel, David
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3889

by Palenzuela, Carlos and Lehner, Luis and Yoshida, Shin
12 pages

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Hyperaccreting Disks around Magnetars for Gamma-Ray Bursts: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5528

by Zhang, Dong and Dai, Z. G.
61 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, submitted to ApJ

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Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5711

by Krolik, Julian H.
14 pages. Ap J, in press

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The early evolution of massive black holes

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0525

by Volonteri, Marta
8 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 267, Co-evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies

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Hydrodynamic Simulations of Oscillating Shock Waves in a Sub-Keplerian Accretion Flow Around Black Holes

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.1174

by Giri, Kinsuk and Chakrabarti, Sandip K. and Samanta, Madan M. and Ryu, Dongsu
19 pages, 13 figures, 1 Table MNRAS (In press)

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Measuring the spin of the primary black hole in OJ287

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.1209

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.
12 pages, 6 figures

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Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: “Binary Bondi” and “Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton” Accretion

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2096

by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
33 pages, 24 Figures, two tables. Submitted to PRD

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Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2345

by Shapiro, Stuart L.
9 pages, 5 figures; submitted to PRD

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Disk-outflow coupling: Energetics around spinning black holes

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3049

by Bhattacharya, Debbijoy and Ghosh, Shubhrangshu and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
26 pages including 7 figures; submitted in ApJ

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Black Hole Spin and the Radio Loud/Quiet Dichotomy of Active Galactic Nuclei

Friday, November 13th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2228

by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ. Uses emulateapj format

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Hyper Velocity Stars and the Restricted Parabolic 3-body Problem

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1136

by Sari, Re’em and Kobayashi, Shiho and Rossi, Elena M.
10 pages, 10 Figures, Apj submitted

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