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Archive for the ‘astrophysics’ Category
Tidal stellar disruptions by massive black hole pairs: II. Decaying binaries
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Chen, Xian and Sesana, Alberto and Madau, Piero and Liu, Fukun
16 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
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
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
The impact of realistic models of mass segregation on the event rate of extreme-mass ratio inspirals and cusp re-growth
Friday, October 29th, 2010by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Preto, Miguel
Submitted to Class. Quantum Grav.; based on the invited plenary talk of P. Amaro-Seoane at the LISA Symposium 2010
Searching for an Intermediate Mass Black Hole in the Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy MRK 996
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010by Georgakakis, A. and Tsamis, Y. G. and James, B. L. and Aloisi, A.
Submitted to MNRAS
Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M-sigma Relation
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010by Blecha, Laura and Cox, Thomas J. and Loeb, Abraham and Hernquist, Lars
29 pages, 18 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Relativistic encounters of more than two black holes
Saturday, September 18th, 2010by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Freitag, Marc Dewi
A small note of 5 pages, submitted to MNRAS letts
Dynamical friction of massive objects in galactic centres
Saturday, September 18th, 2010by Just, A. and Khan, F. M. and Berczik, P. and Ernst, A. and Spurzem, R.
22 pages, 28 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Constraining the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with LISA Observations II: Direct comparison of detailed models
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010by Plowman, Joseph E. and Hellings, Ronald W. and Tsuruta, Sachiko
32 pages, 21 Figures, 6 Tables; Submitted to MNRAS
The Black Hole Mass in Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 6086
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010by McConnell, Nicholas J. and Ma, Chung-Pei and Graham, James R. and Gebhardt, Karl and Lauer, Tod R. and Wright, Shelley A. and Richstone, Douglas O.
21 pages, 17 figures; submitted to ApJ
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
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)