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Radiative efficiency and thermal spectrum of accretion onto Schwarzschild black holes

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2825

by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Schnittman, Jeremy D. and Hawley, John F.
Submitted to ApJ, 26 pages, 12 figures (some in color), AASTEX

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Tidal Disruption Flares: The Accretion Disk Phase

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2060

by Armijo, Matias Montesinos and Pacheco, José A. de Freitas
14 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to the ApJ

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Black Hole Accretion Disks

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5499

by Abramowicz, Marek A. and Fragile, P. Chris
58 pages, 22 figures, submitted to Living Reviews in Relativity

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Sky localization of complete inspiral-merger-ringdown signals for nonspinning massive black hole binaries

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5650

by McWilliams, Sean T. and Lang, Ryan N. and Baker, John G. and Thorpe, James Ira
9 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Discovery of the Onset of Rapid Accretion by a Dormant Massive Black Hole

Friday, April 29th, 2011

arXiv:1104.4787

by Burrows, D. N. and Kennea, J. A. and Ghisellini, G. and Mangano, V. and Zhang, B. and Page, K. L. and Eracleous, M. and Romano, P. and Sakamoto, T. and Falcone, A. D. and Osborne, J. P. and Campana, S. and Beardmore, A. P. and Breeveld, A. A. and Chester, M. M. and Corbet, R. and Covino, S. and Cummings, J. R. and D’Avanzo, P. and D’Elia, V. and Esposito, P. and Evans, P. A. and Fugazza, D. and Gelbord, J. M. and Hiroi, K. and Holland, S. T. and Huang, K. Y. and Im, M. and Israel, G. and Jeon, Y. and Jeon, Y. -B. and Kawai, N. and Krimm, H. A. and Mészáros, P. and Negoro, H. and Omodei, N. and Park, W. -K. and Perkins, J. S. and Sugizaki, M. and Sung, H. -I. and Tagliaferri, G. and Troja, E. and Ueda, Y. and Urata, Y. and Usui, R. and Antonelli, L. A. and Barthelmy, S. D. and Cusumano, G. and Giommi, P. and Marshall, F. E. and Melandri, A. and Perri, M. and Racusin, J. L. and Sbarufatti, B. and Siegel, M. H. and Gehrels, N.
Submitted to Nature. 4 pages, 3 figures (main paper). 26 pages, 13 figures (supplementary information)

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Localizing Sagittarius A* and M87 on Microarcsecond Scales with Millimeter VLBI

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

arXiv:1104.3146

by Broderick, Avery E. and Loeb, Abraham and Reid, Mark J.
18 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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A relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

arXiv:1104.3257

by Bloom, Joshua S. and Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D. and Cenko, S. Bradley and Perley, Daniel A. and Butler, Nathaniel R. and Tanvir, Nial R. and Levan, Andrew J. and Brien, Paul T. O’ and Strubbe, Linda E. and De Colle, Fabio and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico and Lee, William H. and Nayakshin, Sergei and Quataert, Eliot and King, Andrew R. and Cucchiara, Antonino and Guillochon, James and Bower, Geoffrey C. and Fruchter, Andrew S. and Morgan, Adam N. and van der Horst, Alexander J.
Submitted, 32 pages including supplemental online material

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The Cool Accretion Disk in ESO 243-49 HLX-1: Further Evidence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Friday, April 15th, 2011

arXiv:1104.2614

by Davis, Shane W. and Narayan, Ramesh and Zhu, Yucong and Barret, Didier and Farrell, Sean A. and Godet, Olivier and Servillat, Mathieu and Webb, Natalie A.
10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Observable Signatures of EMRI Black Hole Binaries Embedded in Thin Accretion Disks

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

arXiv:1104.2322

by Kocsis, Bence and Yunes, Nicolas and Loeb, Abraham
42 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Gravitational waves from extreme mass-ratio inspirals in Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity

Monday, April 11th, 2011

arXiv:1104.1183

by Pani, Paolo and Cardoso, Vitor and Gualtieri, Leonardo
RevTex4, 18 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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A fully relativistic twisted disk around a slowly rotating Kerr black hole: derivation of dynamical equations and the shape of stationary configurations

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5739

by Zhuravlev, V. and Ivanov, P.
accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Evolution of the spin parameter of accreting compact objects with non-Kerr quadrupole moment

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5135

by Bambi, Cosimo
20 pages, 16 figures

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Estimates of Black Hole Spin Properties of 55 Sources

Monday, March 7th, 2011

arXiv:1103.0940

by Daly, Ruth A.
13 pages; to appear in MNRAS

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On the unreasonable effectiveness of the post-Newtonian approximation in gravitational physics

Monday, February 28th, 2011

arXiv:1102.5192

by Will, Clifford M.
9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US)

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A source-free integration method for black hole perturbations and self-force computation: Radial fall

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

arXiv:1008.2507

by Aoudia, Sofiane and Spallicci, Alessandro D. A. M.
12 pages, 13 figures (additional figures and text revised in v2 arXiv)

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Collision of two general geodesic particles around a Kerr black hole

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

arXiv:1102.3316

by Harada, Tomohiro and Kimura, Masashi
21 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRD

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Evidence for Black Hole Growth in Local Analogs to Lyman Break Galaxies

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

arXiv:1102.2539

by Jia, Jianjun and Ptak, Andrew and Heckman, Timothy M. and Overzier, Roderik A. and Hornschemeier, Ann and LaMassa, Stephanie M.
Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Observational constraints on the spin of the most massive black holes from radio observations

Monday, February 14th, 2011

arXiv:1102.2228

by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted for publication by MNRAS. 30 Pages, 14 Figures, 5 Tables

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Penrose At Work

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

arXiv:1102.1937

by Cen, Renyue
6 pages, no figure, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Radio transients from stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

arXiv:1102.1429

by Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D.
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters

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Supermassive Black Hole in an Elliptical Galaxy: Accretion of a Hot Gas with a Low but Finite Angular Momentum

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1101.5550

by Inogamov, N. A. and Sunyaev, R. A.
Full text of the paper with two Appendices is published in Astronomy Letters, Vol. 36, p. 835 (2010)

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Constraint on the quadrupole moment of super-massive black hole candidates from the estimate of the mean radiative efficiency of AGN

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0616

by Bambi, Cosimo
4 pages, 2 figures

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Physics of Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0262

by Cen, Renyue
29 pages, 3 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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Near-infrared polarimetry as a tool for testing properties of accreting super-massive black holes

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0775

by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Schoedel, R. and Witzel, G. and Sabha, N. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Straubmeier, C. and Valencia-S, M. and Zensus, J. A.
12 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Beyond the geodesic approximation: conservative effects of the gravitational self-force in eccentric orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

arXiv:1101.3331

by Barack, Leor and Sago, Norichika
29 pages, 4 eps figures

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Tuning Time-Domain Pseudospectral Computations of the Self-Force on a Charged Scalar Particle

Friday, January 14th, 2011

arXiv:1101.2526

by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
IOP LaTeX style. 11 pages, 4 pages. Contribution to the NRDA/CAPRA 2010 Conference

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HST WFC3/IR Observations of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies at z~2: Supermassive Black Holes Grow in Disk Galaxies

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.1855

by Schawinski, Kevin and Treister, Ezequiel and Urry, C. Megan and Cardamone, Carolin N. and Simmons, Brooke and Yi, Sukyoung K.
7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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The Status of Black-Hole Binary Merger Simulations with Numerical Relativity

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.2872

by McWilliams, Sean T.
Invited review for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, CQG special issue – 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

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Sgr A*: The Optimal Testbed of Strong-Field Gravity

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.1602

by Psaltis, Dimitrios and Johannsen, Tim
11 pages, 11 figures, Invited Talk in Recent Developments in Gravity XIV, June 2010

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Spinning super-massive objects in galactic nuclei up to $a_* > 1$

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1101.1364

by Bambi, Cosimo
4 pages, 2 figures

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