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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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Dual black holes in merger remnants. II: spin evolution and gravitational recoil

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5729

by Dotti, M. and Volonteri, M. and Perego, A. and Colpi, M. and Ruszkowski, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Effective Inner Radius of Tilted Black Hole Accretion Disks

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5721

by Fragile, P. Chris
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ApJ Letters

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Post-merger electromagnetic emissions from disks perturbed by binary black holes

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4969

by Anderson, Matthew and Lehner, Luis and Megevand, Miguel and Neilsen, David
9 pages, 6 figures

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Transition from radiatively inefficient to cooling dominated phase in two temperature accretion discs around black holes

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4818

by Sinha, Monika and Rajesh, S. R. and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
13 pages including 8 figures; to appear in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Two temperature accretion around rotating black holes: Description of general advective flow paradigm in presence of various cooling processes to explain low to high luminous sources

Monday, October 26th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4502

by Rajesh, S. R. and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
25 pages including 22 figures; to appear in MNRAS

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X-Ray Localization of the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster G1 with Chandra

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.3944

by Kong, A. K. H. and Heinke, C. O. and Di Stefano, R. and Barmby, P. and Lewin, W. H. G. and Primini, F. A.
5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJL

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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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Compact Binaries in Star Clusters I – Black Hole Binaries Inside Globular Clusters

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0546

by Downing, J. M. B. and Benacquista, M. J. and Giersz, M. and Spurzem, R.
18 pages, 5 Tables, 10 Figures, Submitted to MNRAS

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Soft gamma-ray constraints on a bright flare from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0399

by Trap, G. and Goldwurm, A. and Terrier, R. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Gillessen, S. and Genzel, R. and Pantin, E. and Lagage, P. O. and Ferrando, P. and Belanger, G. and Porquet, D. and Grosso, N. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Melia, F.
30 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ASR

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Mass of black holes: The State of the Art

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0313

by Czerny, B. and Nikolajuk, M.
Submitted to proceedings of the Frascati Workshop 2009, Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources, Vulcano (Italy), May 25 – 30

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Hydrodynamical Response of a Circumbinary Gas Disk to Black Hole Recoil and Mass Loss

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.0014

by Corrales, Lia R. and Haiman, Zoltán and MacFadyen, Andrew
16 pages with 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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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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Self-force and motion of stars around black holes

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

arXiv:0909.5558

by Spallicci, A. and Aoudia, S.
To be published on 21 Rencontres de Blois: Windows on the Universe, http://confs.obspm.fr/Blois2009/, 4 pages 1 figure

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Measuring the Spin of GRS 1915+105 with Relativistic Disk Reflection

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

arXiv:0909.5383

by Blum, J. L. and Miller, J. M. and Fabian, A. C. and Miller, M. C. and Homan, J. and van der Klis, M. and Cackett, E. M. and Reis, R. C.
Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Self-gravitating warped discs around supermassive black holes

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

arXiv:0909.5333

by Ulubay-Siddiki, A. and Gerhard, O. and Arnaboldi, M.
13 pages, 21 figures, published in MNRAS

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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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