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Approximate Waveforms for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: The Chimera Scheme

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5715

by 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

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Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5693

by Lou, Yu-Qing and Wu, Yi-Hong

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Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs from Ultra-Close Encounters with Intermediate Mass Spinning Black Holes

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

arXiv:1201.4389

by Haas, Roland and Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Bode, Tanja and Laguna, Pablo
15 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal

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Interaction of Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes with Stars in Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

arXiv:1201.3407

by Li, Shuo and Liu, F. K. and Berczik, Peter and Chen, Xian and Spurzem, Rainer
38 pages, 10 figues; accepted for publication in ApJ

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Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1923

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef and Dotti, Massimo and Volonteri, Marta
17 pages, 10 tables, 14 figures, revtex 4

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Accretion Disc Theory since Shakura and Sunyaev

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2060

by 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.)

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Masses of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes with Very-Long Baseline Interferometry

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.0758

by Johannsen, Tim and Psaltis, Dimitrios and Gillessen, Stefan and Marrone, Daniel P. and Ozel, Feryal and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Fish, Vincent L.
7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted to ApJ

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Broken discs: warp propagation in accretion discs

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1297

by Nixon, Chris and King, Andrew
8 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Non-Thermal Insights on Mass and Energy Flows Through the Galactic Centre and into the Fermi Bubbles

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

arXiv:1112.6247

by Crocker, Roland M.
30 pages, 35 figures

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Multiphase, non-spherical gas accretion onto a black hole

Monday, December 26th, 2011

arXiv:1112.5483

by Barai, Paramita and Proga, Daniel and Nagamine, Kentaro
23 pages, 11 figures, submitted. Uploaded version contains low-resolution color figures. Version with high-resolution figures can be found at: http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~barai/AllPages/Images-Movies/BHaccr_MultiPhase.pdf

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Towards the use of the most massive black hole candidates in AGN to test the Kerr paradigm

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4663

by Bambi, Cosimo
12 pages, 6 figures. To appear in PRD

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Gravitational radiation from compact binary systems in the massive Brans-Dicke theory of gravity

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4903

by Alsing, Justin and Berti, Emanuele and Will, Clifford and Zaglauer, Helmut
19 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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Prospects for Probing the Spacetime of Sgr A* with Pulsars

Monday, December 12th, 2011

arXiv:1112.2151

by Liu, K. and Wex, N. and Kramer, M. and Cordes, J. M. and Lazio, T. J. W.
12 pages, 10 Figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Radio Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451. I. Jet Energetics and the Pristine Parsec-Scale Environment of a Supermassive Black Hole

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1697

by Berger, E. and Zauderer, A. and Pooley, G. G. and Soderberg, A. M. and Sari, R. and Brunthaler, A. and Bietenholz, M. F.
Submitted to ApJ; 22 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures

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Verifying the no-hair property of massive compact objects with intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in advanced gravitational-wave detectors

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1404

by Rodriguez, Carl L. and Mandel, Ilya and Gair, Jonathan R.
12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRD

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Observational Evidence for a Correlation Between Jet Power and Black Hole Spin

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

arXiv:1112.0569

by Narayan, Ramesh and McClintock, Jeffrey E.
Published online in MNRAS, November 21, 2011

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Evolution of inspiral orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

arXiv:1111.6908

by Warburton, Niels and Akcay, Sarp and Barack, Leor and Gair, Jonathan R. and Sago, Norichika
4.3 pages, 3 figures

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Dark matter and dark energy accretion onto intermediate-mass black holes

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5605

by Pepe, C. and Pellizza, L. J. and Romero, G. E.
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Jets from Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Black Holes

Monday, November 14th, 2011

arXiv:1111.2802

by Krolik, Julian H. and Piran, Tsvi

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A new type of compact stellar population: dark star clusters

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4103

by Banerjee, Sambaran and Kroupa, Pavel
14 pages, 4 figures. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Properties of a thin accretion disk around a rotating non-Kerr black hole

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3462

by Chen, Songbai and Jing, Jiliang
13 pages, 5 figures. References added, Expanded discussion of the marginally stable orbit and its consequence. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1106.5183

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Accretion onto Black Holes from Large Scales Regulated by Radiative Feedback. II. Growth Rate and Duty Cycle

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4634

by Park, KwangHo and Ricotti, Massimo
27 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ, for associated mpeg files, see http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kpark/research.html

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A Young Massive Stellar Population Around the Intermediate Mass Black Hole ESO 243-49 HLX-1

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6510

by Farrell, S. and Servillat, M. and Pforr, J. and Maccarone, T. and Knigge, C. and Godet, O. and Maraston, C. and Webb, N. and Barret, D. and Gosling, A. and Belmont, R. and Wiersema, K.
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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Radiatively Inefficient Accretion: Breezes, Winds and Hyperaccretion

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5356

by Begelman, Mitchell C.
13 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Slowly-rotating stars and black holes in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5329

by Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine and Chen, Yanbei
14 pages, 11 figures. Comments are welcome

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Strong field effects on emission line profiles: Kerr black holes and warped accretion disks

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4997

by Wang, Yan and Li, Xiang-Dong
22 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Optical polarization angle and VLBI jet direction in the binary black hole model of OJ287

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1111.1539

by Valtonen, Mauri J. and Villforth, Carolin and Wiik, Kaj
to appear in Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society

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Roche Accretion of stars close to massive black holes

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2614

by Blandford, Roger D.
10 pages, 10 figures, to be submitted to MNRAS

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Energy versus Angular Momentum in Black Hole Binaries

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2938

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
4 pages, 2 figures

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Collision of an object in the transition from adiabatic inspiral to plunge around a Kerr black hole

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6722

by Harada, Tomohiro and Kimura, Masashi
17 pages, no figure

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