Collisional formation of very massive stars in dense clusters
Friday, September 3rd, 2010by Moeckel, Nickolas and Clarke, Cathie J.
8 pages, submitted to MNRAS. Includes revisions per referee’s comments
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The central black hole mass of the high-sigma but low-bulge-luminosity lenticular galaxy NGC 1332
Friday, September 3rd, 2010by Rusli, Stephanie P. and Thomas, Jens and Erwin, Peter and Saglia, Roberto P. and Nowak, Nina and Bender, Ralf
15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010The Globular Cluster/Central Black Hole Connection in Galaxies
Monday, August 30th, 2010by Harris, Gretchen L. H. and Harris, William E.
7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
X-ray study of HLX1: intermediate-mass black hole or foreground neutron star?
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Soria, Roberto and Zampieri, Luca and Zane, Silvia and Wu, Kinwah
10 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Corrected LZ’s affiliation and updated 1 reference
A Radio Census of Binary Supermassive Black Holes
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Burke-Spolaor, Sarah
11 Pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Tidal Disruption Flare in Abell 1689 from an Archival X-ray Survey of Galaxy Clusters
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Maksym, Peter and Ulmer, Melville P. and Eracleous, Michael
24 pages, including 6 figures and 2 tables Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Spectroscopic Signatures of the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Strubbe, Linda E. and Quataert, Eliot
14 pages, 5 figures; submitted to MNRAS
A Redshift for the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate HLX-1: Confirmation of its Association with the Galaxy ESO 243-49
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Wiersema, Klaas and Farrell, Sean A. and Webb, Natalie A. and Servillat, Mathieu and Maccarone, Thomas J. and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL on 20th May 2010, accepted for publication 20th July 2010
Variability and stability in optical blazar jets: the case of OJ287
Thursday, August 19th, 2010by Villforth, C. and Nilsson, K. and Heidt, J. and Pursimo, T.
To appear in the proceedings of the meeting “Steady and Transient Jets”, held in Bonn, Germany (7-8 April 2010)
Nuclear Star Clusters from Clustered Star Formation
Thursday, August 19th, 2010The Orbital Structure of Triaxial Galaxies with Figure Rotation
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Deibel, Alex T. and Valluri, Monica and Merritt, David
22 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to ApJ August 2010. High resolution version available at http://astro.lsa.umich.edu/~mvalluri/preprints.html
Widespread presence of shallow cusps in the surface-brightness profile of globular clusters
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Vesperini, Enrico and Trenti, Michele
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters
A new globular cluster black hole in NGC 4472
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Maccarone, Thomas J. and Kundu, Arunav and Zepf, Stephen E. and Rhode, Katherine L.
6 pages, one 2-panel figure, 2 tables; accepted to MNRAS
Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes
Monday, August 16th, 2010by Done, Chris
56 pages. To appear in XXI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics. Ed T Shahbaz, CUP
Rapid Flux Variability of Sgr A*
Monday, August 16th, 2010by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Wardle, M. and Miller-Jones, J. and Roberts, D. and Porquet, D. and Grosso, N.
20 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ
Recoiling Massive Black Holes in Gas-Rich Galaxy Mergers
Friday, August 13th, 2010by Guedes, Javiera and Madau, Piero and Mayer, Lucio and Callegari, Simone
15 pages, submitted to ApJ
The two states of Sgr A* in the near-infrared: bright episodic flares on top of low-level continuous variability
Friday, August 13th, 2010by Dodds-Eden, K. and Gillessen, S. and Fritz, T. K. and Eisenhauer, F. and Trippe, S. and Genzel, R. and Ott, T. and Bartko, H. and Pfuhl, O. and Bower, G. and Goldwurm, A. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Yusef-Zadeh, F.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ
Testing GR with Galactic-centre Stars
Monday, August 9th, 2010by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit
Contributed talk in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies”, Shanghai 19-23/10/2009. To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan (4 pages, 2 figures)
Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by General Relativistic Dynamical and Polarized Radiative Modeling
Thursday, July 29th, 2010by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Penna, Robert F. and McKinney, Jonathan C.
17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics
Thursday, July 29th, 2010by Alexander, Tal
Invited overview lecture in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies” (Shanghai 19-23/10/2009). To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris (12 pp 5 fig)
Broad emission lines for negatively spinning black holes
Thursday, July 29th, 2010by Dauser, T. and Wilms, J. and Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W.
7 pages, 6 figures; accepted by MNRAS for Publication
VLT Kinematics for omega Centauri: Further Support for a Central Black Hole
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010by Noyola, Eva and Gebhardt, Karl and Kissler-Patig, Markus and Lutzgendorf, Nora and Jalali, Behrang and de Zeeuw, P. Tim and Baumgardt, Holger
5 pages, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: Gas Supply Driven by Star Formation
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010by Wang, J. -M. and Yan, C. -S. and Gao, H. -Q. and Hu, C. and Li, Y. -R. and Zhang, S.
emulateapj.sty, 5 page, 4 figures (in press)
An expanded M_bh-sigma diagram, and a new calibration of active galactic nuclei masses
Friday, July 23rd, 2010by Graham, Alister W. and Onken, Christopher A. and Athanassoula, E. and Combes, Francoise
17 pages. Submitted to MNRAS on July 19
The peculiar optical spectrum of 4C+22.25: Imprint of a massive black hole binary?
Friday, July 23rd, 2010by Decarli, Roberto and Dotti, Massimo and Montuori, Carmen and Liimets, Tiina and Ederoclite, Alessandro
2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Precise Black Hole Masses From Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010by Greene, J. E. and Peng, C. Y. and Kim, M. and Kuo, C. Y. and Braatz, J. A. and Impellizzeri, C. M. V. and Condon, J. J. and Lo, K. Y. and Henkel, C. and Reid, M. J.
21 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Towards relativistic orbit fitting of Galactic center stars and pulsars
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit and Merritt, David
20 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the ApJ
The Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010by Kelly, Brandon C. and Vestergaard, Marianne and Fan, Xiaohui and Hopkins, Philip and Hernquist, Lars and Siemiginowska, Aneta
Accepted by ApJ, 25 pages (emulateapj), 11 figures
