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Archive for the ‘cosmology’ Category

Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0019

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barranco, Juan and Bernal, Argelia and Rezzolla, Luciano
22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP

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Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

arXiv:1008.5147

by Bellovary, Jillian and Governato, Fabio and Quinn, Tom and Wadsley, James and Shen, Sijing and Volonteri, Marta
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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The growth of supermassive black holes fed by accretion disks

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4150

by Armijo, M. A. Montesinos and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas
10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to A&A

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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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Massive Black Hole Binary Systems in Hierarchical Scenario of Structure Formation

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1008.0399

by Pereira, Eduardo S. and Miranda, Oswaldo D.

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The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4741

by Haiman, Zoltán
10 pages, 5 figures. Review contribution to the Proceedings of “The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade”, Austin, TX, March 8-11, 2010

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Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves from extragalactic sources

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1005.0977

by Schneider, Raffaella and Marassi, Stefania and Ferrari, Valeria
10 pages, 9 figures, proceedings of the GWDAW 10 Conference, submitted to Class. & Quantum Grav

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Supermassive Black Hole Formation at High Redshifts Through a Primordial Magnetic Field

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2942

by Sethi, Shiv K. and Haiman, Zoltán and Pandey, Kanhaiya
submitted to ApJ, 5 emulateapj pages and 5 figures

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Reducing the weak lensing noise for the gravitational wave Hubble diagram using the non-Gaussianity of the magnification distribution

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1004.3988

by Hirata, Christopher M. and Holz, Daniel E. and Cutler, Curt
11 pages, 6 figures, to be submitted to PRD

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On the transition from nuclear-cluster to black-hole dominated galaxy cores

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.3627

by Bekki, Kenji and Graham, Alister W.
15 page, 5 figures, accepted in ApJL

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Formation of Supermassive Black Holes

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4404

by Volonteri, Marta
To appear in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. The final publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com

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Evolution of massive black hole spins

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3827

by 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)

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Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes

Friday, February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3378

by Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Micic, Miroslav and Sigurdsson, Steinn and Rubbo, Louis
18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in the Astrophysical Journal

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Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1712

by 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

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The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1705

by Batcheldor, D.
ApJ Letters, accepted

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The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1703

by 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

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Discriminating between a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background and Instrument Noise

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1291

by Adams, Matthew R. and Cornish, Neil J.
10 Pages, 10 Figures

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Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5451

by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009

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High redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects I: model description

Monday, January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3874

by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Colpi, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Measuring the dark energy equation of state with LISA

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3099

by Broeck, Chris Van Den and Trias, M. and Sathyaprakash, B. S. and Sintes, A. M.
14 pages, many eps figures

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Gravitational recoil: effects on massive black hole occupation fraction over cosmic time

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1743

by Volonteri, Marta and Gultekin, Kayhan and Dotti, Massimo
Submitted to MNRAS

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Constraining the evolutionary history of Newton’s constant with gravitational wave observations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2724

by Yunes, Nicolas and Pretorius, Frans and Spergel, David
11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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The early evolution of massive black holes

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0525

by Volonteri, Marta
8 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 267, Co-evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies

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Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes from Cosmological Simulations

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2223

by Filloux, Ch. and Durier, F. and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas and Silk, J.
Talk given at the International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics (IWARA 2009), Maresias, Brazil. to be published in the International Journal of Modern Physics D

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The quasar M_bh – M_host relation through Cosmic Time II – Evidence for evolution from z=3 to the present age

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2988

by Decarli, R. and Falomo, R. and Treves, A. and Labita, M. and Kotilainen, J. K. and Scarpa, R.
10 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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The quasar M_bh – M_host relation through Cosmic Time I – Dataset and black hole masses

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.2983

by Decarli, R. and Falomo, R. and Treves, A. and Kotilainen, J. K. and Labita, M. and Scarpa, R.
16 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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The evolution of Black Hole scaling relations in galaxy mergers

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

arXiv:0910.2232

by Johansson, Peter H. and Burkert, Andreas and Naab, Thorsten
6 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL

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Triplets of supermassive black holes: Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves and Detection

Monday, October 12th, 2009

arXiv:0910.1587

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto and Hoffman, Loren and Benacquista, Matthew and Eichhorn, Christoph and Makino, Junichiro and Spurzem, Rainer
Submitted to MNRAS

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Black Hole Growth and Starburst Activity at z=0.6-4 in the Chandra Deep Field South

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

arXiv:0910.1007

by Brusa, M. and Fiore, F. and Santini, P. and Grazian, A. and Comastri, A. and Zamorani, G. and Hasinger, G. and Merloni, A. and Civano, F. and Fontana, A. and Mainieri, V.
19 pages, 11 figures, A&A in press

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The stochastic gravitational wave background from turbulence and magnetic fields generated by a first-order phase transition

Friday, September 4th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0622

by Caprini, Chiara and Durrer, Ruth and Servant, Geraldine
44 pages, 17 figures

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