Collision of two general geodesic particles around a Kerr black hole
Thursday, February 17th, 2011by Harada, Tomohiro and Kimura, Masashi
21 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRD
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
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Evidence for Black Hole Growth in Local Analogs to Lyman Break Galaxies
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011by 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
Observational constraints on the spin of the most massive black holes from radio observations
Monday, February 14th, 2011by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted for publication by MNRAS. 30 Pages, 14 Figures, 5 Tables
Penrose At Work
Thursday, February 10th, 2011by Cen, Renyue
6 pages, no figure, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Radio transients from stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011by Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D.
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters
Supermassive Black Hole in an Elliptical Galaxy: Accretion of a Hot Gas with a Low but Finite Angular Momentum
Monday, February 7th, 2011by 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)
Constraint on the quadrupole moment of super-massive black hole candidates from the estimate of the mean radiative efficiency of AGN
Monday, February 7th, 2011Physics of Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes
Monday, February 7th, 2011Near-infrared polarimetry as a tool for testing properties of accreting super-massive black holes
Monday, February 7th, 2011by 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
Beyond the geodesic approximation: conservative effects of the gravitational self-force in eccentric orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011Tuning Time-Domain Pseudospectral Computations of the Self-Force on a Charged Scalar Particle
Friday, January 14th, 2011by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
IOP LaTeX style. 11 pages, 4 pages. Contribution to the NRDA/CAPRA 2010 Conference
HST WFC3/IR Observations of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies at z~2: Supermassive Black Holes Grow in Disk Galaxies
Monday, January 10th, 2011by 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
The Status of Black-Hole Binary Merger Simulations with Numerical Relativity
Monday, January 10th, 2011by McWilliams, Sean T.
Invited review for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, CQG special issue – 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Sgr A*: The Optimal Testbed of Strong-Field Gravity
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Psaltis, Dimitrios and Johannsen, Tim
11 pages, 11 figures, Invited Talk in Recent Developments in Gravity XIV, June 2010
Spinning super-massive objects in galactic nuclei up to $a_* > 1$
Monday, January 10th, 2011Forced motion near black holes
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Gair, Jonathan R. and Flanagan, Eanna E. and Drasco, Steve and Hinderer, Tanja and Babak, Stanislav
27 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Magnetothermal and magnetorotational instabilities in hot accretion flows
Friday, November 26th, 2010by Bu, De-Fu and Yuan, Feng and Stone, James M
7 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Massive black holes in stellar systems: ‘quiescent’ accretion and luminosity
Monday, November 22nd, 2010by Volonteri, Marta and Dotti, Massimo and Campbell, Duncan and Mateo, Mario
Submitted to ApJ
Star Formation in Quasar Disk
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Fast variability of gamma-ray emission from supermassive black hole binary OJ 287
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Evidence for Low Black Hole Spin and Physically Motivated Accretion Models from Millimeter VLBI Observations of Sagittarius A*
Monday, November 15th, 2010by Broderick, Avery E. and Fish, Vincent L. and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Loeb, Abraham
15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
Retrograde Accretion and Merging Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010by Nixon, C. J. and Cossins, P. J. and King, A. R. and Pringle, J. E.
8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Movies of the simulations can be found at: http://www.astro.le.ac.uk/users/cjn12/RetroBinaryMovies.html
The Murmur of The Hidden Monster: Chandra’s Decadal View of The Super-massive Black Hole in M31
Friday, November 5th, 2010by Li, Zhiyuan and Garcia, Michael R. and Forman, William R. and Jones, Christine and Kraft, Ralph P. and Lal, Dharam V. and Murray, Stephen S. and Wang, Q. Daniel
12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL, comments welcome
Modeling maximum astrophysical gravitational recoil velocities
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010by Centrella, Joan M. and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J. and van Meter, James R.
53 pages, 42 figures. Review article submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics
Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole Mergers
Monday, October 18th, 2010by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. special issue: proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium
Conservative corrections to the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) of a Kerr black hole: a new gauge-invariant post-Newtonian ISCO condition, and the ISCO shift due to test-particle spin and the gravitational self-force
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Testing Modified Gravity with Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
10 pages, 2 figures, Springer Verlag LaTeX style. To appear in the proceedings of Cosmology, the Quantum Vacuum, and Zeta Functions: A workshop with a celebration of Emilio Elizalde’s sixtieth birthday, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, 8-10 Mar 2010. Eds. S. D. Odintsov, D. Saez-Gomez, and S. Xambo
The Effect of Massive Perturbers on Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspiral Waveforms
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010by Yunes, Nicolas and Miller, M. Coleman and Thornburg, Jonathan
9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
An Efficient Time-Domain Method to Model Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals
Friday, October 1st, 2010by Canizares, Priscilla and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
6 pages, 7 figures, submitted to proceedings of the 8th International LISA Symposium, Stanford, June 28 – July 2, 2010