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Collisional formation of very massive stars in dense clusters

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0283

by 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, 2010

arXiv:1009.0515

by 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

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Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0157

by Hayasaki, Kimitake
12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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The Globular Cluster/Central Black Hole Connection in Galaxies

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4748

by Harris, Gretchen L. H. and Harris, William E.
7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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X-ray study of HLX1: intermediate-mass black hole or foreground neutron star?

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3382

by Soria, Roberto and Zampieri, Luca and Zane, Silvia and Wu, Kinwah
10 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Corrected LZ’s affiliation and updated 1 reference

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A Radio Census of Binary Supermassive Black Holes

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4382

by Burke-Spolaor, Sarah
11 Pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A Tidal Disruption Flare in Abell 1689 from an Archival X-ray Survey of Galaxy Clusters

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4140

by Maksym, Peter and Ulmer, Melville P. and Eracleous, Michael
24 pages, including 6 figures and 2 tables Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Spectroscopic Signatures of the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4131

by Strubbe, Linda E. and Quataert, Eliot
14 pages, 5 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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A Redshift for the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate HLX-1: Confirmation of its Association with the Galaxy ESO 243-49

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4125

by 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

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Variability and stability in optical blazar jets: the case of OJ287

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3082

by 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)

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Nuclear Star Clusters from Clustered Star Formation

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2986

by Agarwal, Meghann and Milosavljevic, Milos
11 pages, 12 figures

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The Orbital Structure of Triaxial Galaxies with Figure Rotation

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2753

by 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

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Widespread presence of shallow cusps in the surface-brightness profile of globular clusters

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2771

by Vesperini, Enrico and Trenti, Michele
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters

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A new globular cluster black hole in NGC 4472

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2896

by 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

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Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes

Monday, August 16th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2287

by Done, Chris
56 pages. To appear in XXI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics. Ed T Shahbaz, CUP

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Rapid Flux Variability of Sgr A*

Monday, August 16th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2229

by 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

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Recoiling Massive Black Holes in Gas-Rich Galaxy Mergers

Friday, August 13th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2032

by Guedes, Javiera and Madau, Piero and Mayer, Lucio and Callegari, Simone
15 pages, submitted to ApJ

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The two states of Sgr A* in the near-infrared: bright episodic flares on top of low-level continuous variability

Friday, August 13th, 2010

arXiv:1008.1984

by 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

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Testing GR with Galactic-centre Stars

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1008.1061

by 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)

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Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by General Relativistic Dynamical and Polarized Radiative Modeling

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4832

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Penna, Robert F. and McKinney, Jonathan C.
17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4991

by 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)

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Broad emission lines for negatively spinning black holes

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4937

by Dauser, T. and Wilms, J. and Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W.
7 pages, 6 figures; accepted by MNRAS for Publication

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VLT Kinematics for omega Centauri: Further Support for a Central Black Hole

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4559

by 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

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Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: Gas Supply Driven by Star Formation

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4060

by 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)

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An expanded M_bh-sigma diagram, and a new calibration of active galactic nuclei masses

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1007.3834

by Graham, Alister W. and Onken, Christopher A. and Athanassoula, E. and Combes, Francoise
17 pages. Submitted to MNRAS on July 19

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The peculiar optical spectrum of 4C+22.25: Imprint of a massive black hole binary?

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1007.3738

by Decarli, Roberto and Dotti, Massimo and Montuori, Carmen and Liimets, Tiina and Ederoclite, Alessandro
2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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Precise Black Hole Masses From Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2851

by 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

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Towards relativistic orbit fitting of Galactic center stars and pulsars

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

arXiv:1007.0007

by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit and Merritt, David
20 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the ApJ

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The Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3563

by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3561

by 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

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