Black Holes in Pseudobulges: demography and models
Friday, February 3rd, 2012by Shankar, F. and Marulli, F. and Mathur, S. and Bernardi, M. and Bournaud, F.
9 pages, 4 Figures. Accepted by A&A
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The evolution of massive black holes and their spins in their galactic hosts
Monday, January 30th, 2012High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects II: The census of BH seeds
Friday, January 20th, 2012by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Rossi, E. M. and Colpi, M. and Zwart, S. Portegies
12 pages, MNRAS, accepted
Clearing Out a Galaxy
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Zubovas, Kastytis and King, Andrew R.
6 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA/NGO: Phase Transitions, Cosmic Strings and Other Sources
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Binétruy, Pierre and Bohé, Alejandro and Caprini, Chiara and Dufaux, Jean-François
46 pages, 12 figures
Tuning the stochastic background of gravitational waves using the WMAP data
Monday, January 2nd, 2012by Corda, Christian
9 pages, 2 figures, published in Modern Physics Letters A. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0901.1193
Feeding compact bulges and supermassive black holes with low angular-momentum cosmic gas at high redshift
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Dubois, Yohan and Pichon, Christophe and Haehnelt, Martin and Kimm, Taysun and Slyz, Adrianne and Devriendt, Julien and Pogosyan, Dmitry
16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS
The Growth of the Stellar Seeds of Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Johnson, Jarrett L. and Whalen, Daniel J. and Fryer, Christopher L. and Li, Hui
14 pages, 4 figures; submitted to ApJ
What Drives the Growth of Black Holes?
Monday, December 12th, 2011by Alexander, David M. and Hickox, Ryan C.
42 pages, 8 figures; Extensive review to appear in New Astronomy Reviews
Mass Functions of Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Kelly, Brandon C. and Merloni, Andrea
40 pages, 7 figures, review paper accepted for the Advances in Astronomy Special Issue “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The Cosmic History of Black Hole Growth from Deep Multiwavelength Surveys
Monday, December 5th, 2011by Treister, Ezequiel and Urry, C. Megan
33 pages, 20 figures, review paper accepted for the Advances in Astronomy Special Issue “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
Evidence for Three Accreting Black Holes in a Galaxy at z~1.35: A Snapshot of Recently Formed Black Hole Seeds?
Thursday, December 1st, 2011by Schawinski, Kevin and Urry, Meg and Treister, Ezequiel and Simmons, Brooke and Natarajan, Priyamvada and Glikman, Eilat
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
The First Galaxies: Assembly with Black Hole Feedback
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011by Jeon, Myoungwon and Pawlik, Andreas H. and Greif, Thomas H. and Glover, Simon C. O. and Bromm, Volker and Milosavljevic, Milos and Klessen, Ralf S.
17 pages, 14 figures
The Gravitational Wave International Committee Roadmap: The future of gravitational wave astronomy
Monday, November 28th, 2011by Marx, Jay and Danzmann, Karsten and Hough, James and Kuroda, Kazuaki and McClelland, David and Mours, Benoit and Phinney, Sterl and Rowan, Sheila and Sathyaprakash, B. and Vetrano, Flavio and Vitale, Stefano and Whitcomb, Stan and Will, Clifford
116 pages. Original document in higher resolution can be found at https://gwic.ligo.org/roadmap/
Dark matter and dark energy accretion onto intermediate-mass black holes
Thursday, November 24th, 2011by Pepe, C. and Pellizza, L. J. and Romero, G. E.
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Photon Trapping Enables Super-Eddington Growth of Black-Hole Seeds in Galaxies at High Redshift
Thursday, November 24th, 2011Constraining Dynamical Dark Energy Models through the Abundance of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes
Thursday, November 17th, 2011by Lamastra, Alessandra and Menci, Nicola and Fiore, Fabrizio and Di Porto, Cinzia and Amendola, Luca
19 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS
No evidence of obscured, accreting black holes in most z=6 star-forming galaxies
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011A practical guide to the massive black hole cosmic history
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Sesana, A.
21 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
Empirical Constraints on the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Spheroids
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Li, Gongjie and Conroy, Charlie and Loeb, Abraham
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Accretion onto Intermediate-mass Seed Black Holes in Primordial Galaxies
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Evidence for cosmic evolution in the spin of the most massive black holes
Monday, September 12th, 2011by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted by MNRAS. 6 pages, 3 colour figures. Supplementary material can be found at: http://research.icg.port.ac.uk/~martinea/spin_suppl_fig.pdf
Self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes by a dual jet/heating AGN feedback mechanism: methods, tests and implications for cosmological simulations
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Dubois, Yohan and Devriendt, Julien and Slyz, Adrianne and Teyssier, Romain
24 pages, 18 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS
Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Starburst Galaxies over Cosmic Time: Constraints from the Deepest Chandra Fields
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Rafferty, D. A. and Brandt, W. N. and Alexander, D. M. and Xue, Y. Q. and Bauer, F. E. and Lehmer, B. D. and Luo, B. and Papovich, C.
25 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Relativistic collapse and explosion of rotating supermassive stars with thermonuclear effects
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Montero, Pedro J. and Janka, Hans-Thomas and Mueller, Ewald
12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
The mass function of black holes at 1<z<4.5: comparison of models with observations
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011by Natarajan, Priyamvada and Volonteri, Marta
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Graviton mass bounds from space-based gravitational-wave observations of massive black hole populations
Thursday, July 21st, 2011by Berti, Emanuele and Gair, Jonathan and Sesana, Alberto
5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center?
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Lang, Meagan and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto
9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome and may be incorporated into the paper with attribution
Assessing the redshift evolution of massive black holes and their hosts
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Formation of galactic nuclei with multiple supermassive black holes at high redshifts
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011by Kulkarni, Girish and Loeb, Abraham
18 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables; submitted to MNRAS; comments welcome