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Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6660

by Stone, Nicholas and Loeb, Abraham
4 pages, 4 figures

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Accurate gravitational waveforms for binary-black-hole mergers with nearly extremal spins

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2229

by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Boyle, Michael and Scheel, Mark A. and Szilagyi, Bela
17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Repeated Bursts from Relativistic Scattering of Compact Objects in Galactic Nuclei

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1109.4170

by Kocsis, Bence and Levin, Janna
14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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New Evidence for High Activity of the Super-Massive Black Hole in our Galaxy

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1950

by Nobukawa, Masayoshi and Ryu, Syukyo G. and Tsuru, Takeshi Go and Koyama, Katsuji
4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

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Accretion onto Intermediate-mass Seed Black Holes in Primordial Galaxies

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3442

by Li, Yuexing
8 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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Accretion Onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the High-redshift Radio-loud AGN 0957+561

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3330

by Gil-Merino, Rodrigo and Goicoechea, Luis J. and Shalyapin, Vyacheslav N. and Braga, Vittorio F.
21 pages, 7 text pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal

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Evidence for cosmic evolution in the spin of the most massive black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0997

by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted by MNRAS. 6 pages, 3 colour figures. Supplementary material can be found at: http://research.icg.port.ac.uk/~martinea/spin_suppl_fig.pdf

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On the detectability of dual jets from binary black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1177

by Moesta, Philipp and Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Zanotti, Olindo and Palenzuela, Carlos
4 pages, 3 figures

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

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0572

by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolás
RevTeX 4.1. 35 pages, 10 Figures, 3 Tables

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1H0707-495 in 2011: An X-ray source within a gravitational radius of the event horizon

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

arXiv:1108.5988

by Fabian, A. C. and Zoghbi, A. and Wilkins, D. and Dwelly, T. and Uttley, P. and Schartel, N. and Miniutti, G. and Gallo, L. and Grupe, D. and Komossa, S. and Santos-Lleo, M.
9 pages, 19 figures, MNRAS in press

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Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4421

by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Lousto, Carlos O. and Campanelli, Manuela
23 pages, 35 figures, revtex4

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Electromagnetic counterparts from counter-rotating relativistic kicked discs

Friday, August 19th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3654

by Zanotti, Olindo
6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by New Astronomy

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Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0412

by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS, submitted

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Slim accretion disks around black holes

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0396

by Sadowski, A.
Ph.D. thesis written under the supervision of Prof. Marek Abramowicz and defended on July 1, 2011 at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences; 206 pages

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Modelling variability in black hole binaries: linking simulations to observations

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0789

by Ingram, Adam and Done, Chris
11 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

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Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin/Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2009

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
4 pages, 3 figures, revtex 4

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Black hole Spin in Sw J1644+57 and Sw J2058+05

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3115

by Lei, Wei-Hua and Zhang, Bing
5 pages, 1 figures

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The mass function of black holes at 1<z<4.5: comparison of models with observations

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

arXiv:1107.4916

by Natarajan, Priyamvada and Volonteri, Marta
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian spin(1)-spin(2) Hamiltonian for self-gravitating binaries

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4294

by Hartung, Johannes and Steinhoff, Jan
7 pages, submitted to AdP

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3C390.3: More Stable Evidence for Origination of Double-Peaked Broad Balmer Lines from Accretion Disk Near Central Black Hole

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0455

by Zhang, Xue-Guang
17 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS accepted

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Detection of jet precession in the active nucleus of M81

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0704

by Marti-Vidal, I. and Marcaide, J. M. and Alberdi, A. and Perez-Torres, M. A. and Ros, E. and Guirado, J. C.
16 pages; 13 figures; 8 tables. Submitted to A&A

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Periastron Advance in Black Hole Binaries

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.3278

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Mroué, Abdul H. and Barack, Leor and Buonanno, Alessandra and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Sago, Norichika and Taracchini, Andrea
5 pages, 3 figures

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Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.3069

by Wong, Ka-Wah and Irwin, Jimmy A. and Yukita, Mihoko and Million, Evan T. and Mathews, William G. and Bregman, Joel N.
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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X-ray and Radio Constraints on the Mass of the Black Hole in Swift J164449.3+573451

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2502

by Miller, J. M. and Gultekin, K.
Submitted to ApJ Letters

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Assessing black hole spin in deep Suzaku observations of Seyfert 1 AGN

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2135

by Patrick, A. R. and Reeves, J. N. and Lobban, A. P. and Porquet, D. and Markowitz, A. G.
25 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Tidal disruptions of separated binaries in galactic nuclei

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1429

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Miller, M. Coleman and Kennedy, Gareth F.
Submitted to MNRAS

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Swift J1644+57: A White Dwarf Tidally Disrupted by a 10^4 M_{odot} Black Hole?

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

arXiv:1106.0923

by Krolik, Julian H. and Piran, Tsvi

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Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Sgr A*

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

arXiv:1105.5645

by Johannsen, Tim
8 pages, 7 figures, invited review for Advances in Astronomy, Special Issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”

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Gravitational waves from the Papaloizou-Pringle instability in black hole-torus systems

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

arXiv:1105.5035

by Kiuchi, Kenta and Shibata, Masaru and Montero, Pedro J. and Font, José A.
4 pages, 4 figure, to be published in PRL

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Binary black hole mergers in gaseous disks: Simulations in general relativity

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2821

by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
submitted to PRD

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