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Rotating Accretion Flows: From Infinity to the Black Hole
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012by Li, Jason and Ostriker, Jeremiah and Sunyaev, Rashid
18 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ
The Tidal Disruption of Giant Stars and Their Contribution to the Flaring Supermassive Black Hole Population
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012by MacLeod, Morgan and Guillochon, James and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
18 pages, 18 figures, submitted to ApJ
Hydrodynamical Simulations to Determine the Feeding Rate of Black Holes by the Tidal Disruption of Stars: The Importance of the Impact Parameter and Stellar Structure
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012by Guillochon, James and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
14 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to ApJ
The Discovery of an X-ray/UV Stellar Flare from the Late-K/Early-M Dwarf LMC 335
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Tsang, B. T. H. and Pun, J. C. S. and Di Stefano, R. and Li, K. L. and Kong, A. K. H.
35 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
The gap closes: a new scenario for the evolution of supermassive black hole binaries with gaseous disks
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Kocsis, Bence and Haiman, Zoltan and Loeb, Abraham
22 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Gas pile up and overflow in circumbinary accretion disks: Type-I.5 migration
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Kocsis, Bence and Haiman, Zoltan and Loeb, Abraham
20 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS
A New Sample of Candidate Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Selected by X-ray Variability
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Kamizasa, Naoya and Terashima, Yuichi and Awaki, Hisamitsu
To Appear in ApJ, 14 pages, 5 figures
The dynamics, appearance and demographics of relativistic jets triggered by tidal disruption of stars in quiescent supermassive black holes
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by De Colle, Fabio and Guillochon, James and Naiman, Jill and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
16 pages, 16 figures, submitted to ApJ
On the determination of the spin of the black hole in Cyg X-1 from X-ray reflection spectra
Friday, April 27th, 2012by Fabian, A. C. and Wilkins, D. R. and Miller, J. M. and Reis, R. C. and Reynolds, C. S. and Cackett, E. M. and Nowak, M. A. and Pooley, G. G. and Pottschmidt, K. and Sanders, J. S. and Ross, R. R. and Wilms, J.
7 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS in press
On the hunt for ultramassive black holes in brightest cluster galaxies
Friday, April 27th, 2012by Hlavacek-Larrondo, J. and Fabian, A. C. and Edge, A. C. and Hogan, M. T.
9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Monte Carlo Markov Chain based investigation of black hole spin in the active galaxy NGC3783
Friday, April 27th, 2012by Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W. and Lohfink, A. M. and Trippe, M. L. and Miller, J. M. and Fabian, A. C. and Nowak, M. A.
Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Tilted black hole accretion disc models of Sagittarius A*: time-variable millimetre to near-infrared emission
Monday, April 23rd, 2012by Dexter, Jason and Fragile, P. Chris
17 pages, 18 figures, submitted to MNRAS; for movies and version with high-res figures see http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jdexter/tiltedsgra
Light scalar field constraints from gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Berti, Emanuele and Gualtieri, Leonardo and Horbatsch, Michael and Alsing, Justin
9 pages, 4 figures
Stable counteralignment of a circumbinary disc
Saturday, April 21st, 2012The Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Center of NGC 404: New Evidence from Radio Continuum Observations
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Nyland, Kristina and Marvil, Josh and Wrobel, Joan and Young, Lisa and Zauderer, B. Ashley
Accepted for publication to ApJ
3-D Radiative Transfer Calculations of Radiation Feedback from Massive Black Holes: Outflow of Mass from the Dusty “Torus”
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Roth, Nathaniel and Kasen, Daniel and Hopkins, Philip F. and Quataert, Eliot
15 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to ApJ; v2 Corrected spelling and other small typos
Review: Accretion Disk Theory
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012No Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Strong Constraints from the JVLA
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Strader, Jay and Chomiuk, Laura and Maccarone, Thomas and Miller-Jones, James and Seth, Anil and Heinke, Craig and Sivakoff, Gregory
6 pages, 2 figures. ApJL in press
General Relativistic Simulations of Magnetized Plasmas around Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Giacomazzo, Bruno and Baker, John G. and Miller, M. Coleman and Reynolds, Christopher S. and van Meter, James R.
6 pages, 5 figures
The most extreme ultraluminous X-ray sources: evidence for intermediate-mass black holes?
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Sutton, Andrew D. and Roberts, Timothy P. and Walton, Dominic J. and Gladstone, Jeanette C. and Scott, Amy E.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 26 pages, 9 figures, 10 tables
Effects of post-Newtonian Spin Alignment on the Distribution of Black-Hole Recoils
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Berti, Emanuele and Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich
12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
A tidal disruption-like X-ray flare from the quiescent galaxy SDSS J120136.02+300305.5
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012by Saxton, R. D. and Read, A. M. and Esquej, P. and Komossa, S. and Dougherty, S. and Rodriguez-Pascual, P. and Barrado, D.
Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 11 pages, 11 figures
A Chandra Survey of Supermassive Black Holes with Dynamical Mass Measurements
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Gultekin, Kayhan and Cackett, Edward M. and Miller, Jon M. and Di Matteo, Tiziana and Markoff, Sera and Richstone, Douglas O.
Accepted by ApJ. 16 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables
Approximate Waveforms for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: The Chimera Scheme
Monday, January 30th, 2012by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
10 pages, 3 figures. LaTeX, JPCS style. Submitted to the proceedings of the 9th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, and the 2011 Numerical Relativity – Data Analysis (NRDA) meeting, held 10-15 July 2011 in Cardiff, Wales, UK, July 10-15 2011
Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters
Monday, January 30th, 2012Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs from Ultra-Close Encounters with Intermediate Mass Spinning Black Holes
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012by Haas, Roland and Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Bode, Tanja and Laguna, Pablo
15 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal
Interaction of Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes with Stars in Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, January 19th, 2012by Li, Shuo and Liu, F. K. and Berczik, Peter and Chen, Xian and Spurzem, Rainer
38 pages, 10 figues; accepted for publication in ApJ
Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef and Dotti, Massimo and Volonteri, Marta
17 pages, 10 tables, 14 figures, revtex 4
Accretion Disc Theory since Shakura and Sunyaev
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by King, Andrew
to appear in proceedings of `The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables’, Memorie Societa’ Astronomica Italiana, 2012 (F. Giovannelli and L. Sabau-Graziati eds.)