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
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
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Archive for the ‘astrophysics’ Category
The Underluminous Nature of Sgr A*
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Wardle, M.
4 pages, To appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini
The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole
Thursday, March 4th, 2010by Seth, Anil C. and Cappellari, Michele and Neumayer, Nadine and Caldwell, Nelson and Bastian, Nate and Olsen, Knut and Blum, Robert D. and Debattista, Victor P. and McDermid, Richard and Puzia, Thomas and Stephens, Andrew
To appear in ApJ. 21 pages, 19 figures, higher resolution PDF available at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~aseth/ngc404paper.pdf
A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri
Monday, March 1st, 2010by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics
On the angular momentum transport due to vertical convection in accretion discs
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Evolution of massive black hole spins
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010by Volonteri, Marta
10 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the conference “Accretion and ejection in AGN: a global view” (Como, 22-26 June 2009)
Chandra and Swift Follow-up Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in ESO243-49
Monday, February 22nd, 2010by Webb, N. A. and Barret, D. and Godet, O. and Servillat, M. and Farrell, S. A. and Oates, S. R.
10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL on 12/02/2010
Connections Between Local and Global Turbulence in Accretion Disks
Monday, February 22nd, 2010by Sorathia, Kareem A. and Reynolds, Christopher S. and Armitage, Philip J.
8 Pages, 7 Figures ApJ, In Press
Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1
Friday, February 19th, 2010by Farrell, S. A. and Servillat, M. and Oates, S. R. and Heywood, I. and Godet, O. and Webb, N. A. and Barret, D.
4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted 11th of Feb 2010. Contributed talk to appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini
Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes
Friday, February 19th, 2010by Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Micic, Miroslav and Sigurdsson, Steinn and Rubbo, Louis
18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in the Astrophysical Journal
Flares from Sgr A* and their emission mechanism
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010by Dodds-Eden, K. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Quataert, E. and Gillessen, S. and Grosso, N. and Genzel, R. and Goldwurm, A. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Trippe, S. and Bartko, H. and Eisenhauer, F. and Ott, T. and Fritz, T. K. and Pfuhl, O.
Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai
HST Palpha Survey of the Galactic Center — Searching the missing young stellar populations within the Galactic Center
Monday, February 15th, 2010by Dong, H. and Wang, Q. D. and Cotera, A. and Stolovy, S. and Morris, M. R. and Mauerhan, J. and Mills, E. A. and Schneider, G. and Lang, C.
10 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai
Evolution and instabilities of disks harboring super massive black holes
Monday, February 15th, 2010by Curir, Anna and de Romeri, Valentina and Murante, Giuseppe
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for pubblication in “Astrophysics and Space Science”
Young massive star clusters
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by Zwart, Simon Portegies and McMillan, Steve and Gieles, Mark
Only 88 pages. To be published in ARAA. Final version to be submitted on Friday 12 February
Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by Callegari, S. and Kazantzidis, S. and Mayer, L. and Colpi, M. and Bellovary, J. M. and Quinn, T. and Wadsley, J.
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ
The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments
Thursday, February 11th, 2010The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by Feoli, A. and Mancini, L. and Marulli, F. and Bergh, S. van den
16 pages, 5 figures, to be published in a special issue of General Relativity and Gravitation
The Eccentric Disc Instability: Dependency on Background Stellar Cluster
Monday, February 8th, 2010by Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Mass Segregation in the Galactic Centre
Monday, February 8th, 2010by Hopman, Clovis and Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Centaurus A: Revealed by Gas- and Stellar Kinematics
Friday, February 5th, 2010by Neumayer, Nadine
8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA, contribution for “The Many Faces of Centaurus A” conference in Sydney, 2009
Stellar disc — dynamical evolution in a perturbed potential
Thursday, February 4th, 2010by Subr, Ladislav
“The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
The Impact of Stellar Collisions in the Galactic Center
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010by Davies, M. B. and Church, R. P. and Malmberg, D. and Nzoke, S. and Dale, J. and Freitag, M.
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009
Dynamical Models of the Galactic Center
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Merritt, David
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Magnetic Connection Model for Launching Relativistic Jets from a Kerr Black Hole
Monday, February 1st, 2010Composition of the galactic center star cluster
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Buchholz, R. M. and Schoedel, R. and Eckart, A.
Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series
Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case
Thursday, January 28th, 2010by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Hawley, John F.
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 52 pages, 38 figures, AASTEX. High-resolution versions can be found at the following links: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.ps, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.pdf
The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster in Context
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010by Schoedel, Rainer
Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series
Massive Young Stars in the Galactic Center
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010High redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects I: model description
Monday, January 25th, 2010by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Colpi, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS