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Accurate gravitational waveforms for binary-black-hole mergers with nearly extremal spins
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Boyle, Michael and Scheel, Mark A. and Szilagyi, Bela
17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Repeated Bursts from Relativistic Scattering of Compact Objects in Galactic Nuclei
Friday, September 23rd, 2011by Kocsis, Bence and Levin, Janna
14 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
New Evidence for High Activity of the Super-Massive Black Hole in our Galaxy
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Nobukawa, Masayoshi and Ryu, Syukyo G. and Tsuru, Takeshi Go and Koyama, Katsuji
4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Accretion onto Intermediate-mass Seed Black Holes in Primordial Galaxies
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Accretion Onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the High-redshift Radio-loud AGN 0957+561
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by 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
Evidence for cosmic evolution in the spin of the most massive black holes
Monday, September 12th, 2011by 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
On the detectability of dual jets from binary black holes
Monday, September 12th, 2011by Moesta, Philipp and Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Zanotti, Olindo and Palenzuela, Carlos
4 pages, 3 figures
The Chimera Scheme: Approximate Waveforms for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolás
RevTeX 4.1. 35 pages, 10 Figures, 3 Tables
1H0707-495 in 2011: An X-ray source within a gravitational radius of the event horizon
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011by 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
Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Lousto, Carlos O. and Campanelli, Manuela
23 pages, 35 figures, revtex4
Electromagnetic counterparts from counter-rotating relativistic kicked discs
Friday, August 19th, 2011Efficient Generation of Jets from Magnetically Arrested Accretion on a Rapidly Spinning Black Hole
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Tchekhovskoy, Alexander and Narayan, Ramesh and McKinney, Jonathan C.
5 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS, submitted
Slim accretion disks around black holes
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by 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
Modelling variability in black hole binaries: linking simulations to observations
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin/Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Black hole Spin in Sw J1644+57 and Sw J2058+05
Thursday, August 18th, 2011The mass function of black holes at 1<z<4.5: comparison of models with observations
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011by Natarajan, Priyamvada and Volonteri, Marta
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian spin(1)-spin(2) Hamiltonian for self-gravitating binaries
Friday, July 22nd, 20113C390.3: More Stable Evidence for Origination of Double-Peaked Broad Balmer Lines from Accretion Disk Near Central Black Hole
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011Detection of jet precession in the active nucleus of M81
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011by 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
Periastron Advance in Black Hole Binaries
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by 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
Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by 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
X-ray and Radio Constraints on the Mass of the Black Hole in Swift J164449.3+573451
Sunday, June 19th, 2011Assessing black hole spin in deep Suzaku observations of Seyfert 1 AGN
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by 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
Tidal disruptions of separated binaries in galactic nuclei
Thursday, June 9th, 2011by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Miller, M. Coleman and Kennedy, Gareth F.
Submitted to MNRAS
Swift J1644+57: A White Dwarf Tidally Disrupted by a 10^4 M_{odot} Black Hole?
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Sgr A*
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011by 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”
Gravitational waves from the Papaloizou-Pringle instability in black hole-torus systems
Thursday, May 26th, 2011by Kiuchi, Kenta and Shibata, Masaru and Montero, Pedro J. and Font, José A.
4 pages, 4 figure, to be published in PRL
Binary black hole mergers in gaseous disks: Simulations in general relativity
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
submitted to PRD