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
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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
Accretion onto Intermediate Mass Black Holes Regulated by Radiative Feedback I. Spherical Symmetric Accretion
Friday, June 18th, 2010Higher order moment models of dense stellar systems: Applications to the modeling of the stellar velocity distribution function
Friday, June 18th, 2010by Schneider, Justus and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome
Spectropolarimetric evidence for a kicked supermassive black hole in the Quasar E1821+643
Friday, June 18th, 2010by Robinson, Andrew and Young, Stuart and Axon, David J. and Kharb, Preeti and Smith, James E.
18 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal as a Letter
Self consistent model for the evolution of eccentric massive black hole binaries in stellar environments: implications for gravitational wave observations
Friday, June 18th, 2010by Sesana, A.
15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters
Friday, June 18th, 2010The Lagrange Equilibrium Points L_4 and L_5 in a Black Hole Binary System
Friday, June 4th, 2010by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ; comments welcome
The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster in the Center of the Milky Way
Friday, June 4th, 2010by Genzel, Reinhard and Eisenhauer, Frank and Gillessen, Stefan
submitted to Rev.Mod.Phys.,comments are welcome
Resonant relaxation and the warp of the stellar disc in the Galactic centre
Friday, June 4th, 2010A Displaced Supermassive Black Hole in M87
Monday, May 17th, 2010by Batcheldor, D. and Robinson, A. and Axon, D. J. and Perlman, E. S. and Merritt, D.
ApJ Letters accepted
Witnessing the Birth of a Quasar
Monday, May 3rd, 2010by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltan and Menou, Kristen
27 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ
On the transition from nuclear-cluster to black-hole dominated galaxy cores
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Cosmology with Standard Sirens: the Importance of the Shape of the Lensing Magnification Distribution
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010by Shang, Cien and Haiman, Zoltan
16 pages, 9 tables, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Momentum-driven winds and positive AGN feedback
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010Inflow-Outflow Model with Conduction and Self-Consistent Feeding for Sgr A*
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Baganoff, Frederick K.
6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJL
Parsec-Scale Localization of the Quasar SDSS J1536+0441A, a Candidate Binary Black Hole System
Friday, April 2nd, 2010by Wrobel, J. M. and Laor, A.
6 pages; 2 figures; emulateapj.cls; to appear in ApJL
A correlation between central supermassive black holes and the globular cluster systems of early-type galaxies
Friday, April 2nd, 2010by Burkert, Andreas and Tremaine, Scott
13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ
Radio observations of NGC 6388: an upper limit on the mass of its central black hole
Thursday, March 25th, 2010by Cseh, D. and Kaaret, P. and Corbel, S. and Kording, E. and Coriat, M. and Tzioumis, A. and Lanzoni, B.
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
On the Dynamics and Evolution of Gravitational Instability-Dominated Disks
Thursday, March 25th, 2010by Krumholz, Mark R. and Burkert, Andreas
14 pages, 3 figures, emulateapj format, submitted to ApJ
Discovery of Four kpc-Scale Binary AGNs
Friday, March 19th, 2010by Liu, Xin and Greene, Jenny E. and Shen, Yue and Strauss, Michael A.
Submitted to ApJL, Mar 10, 2010