The last GW Note is by Nicolás Yunes

Archive for the ‘cosmology’ Category

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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A Relationship between Supermassive Black Hole Mass and the Total Gravitational Mass of the Host Galaxy

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

arXiv:0909.0269

by Bandara, Kaushala and Crampton, David and Simard, Luc
29 pages, 10 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Two phase galaxy formation: The Gas Content of Normal Galaxies

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4115

by Cook, M. and Evoli, C. and Barausse, E. and Granato, G. L. and Lapi, A.
16 pages, 12 figures, 1 table. MNRAS submitted

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Gravitational Waves and Light Cosmic Strings

Friday, August 28th, 2009

arXiv:0908.3680

by Depies, Matthew R
129 pages, 18 figures, PhD dissertation

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Coalescing binaries as possible standard candles

Monday, August 10th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0961

by Capozziello, S. and De Laurentis, M. and Formisano, M.
7 page, 5 figures

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Empirical Constraints on the Evolution of the Relationship between Black Hole and Galaxy Mass: Scatter Matters

Friday, August 7th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0927

by Somerville, Rachel S.
9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Galaxies in COSMOS: Evolution of Black hole vs. bulge mass but not vs. total stellar mass over the last 9 Gyrs?

Friday, July 31st, 2009

arXiv:0907.5199

by Jahnke, Knud and Bongiorno, Angela and Brusa, Marcella and Capak, Peter and Cappelluti, Nico and Cisternas, Mauricio and Civano, Francesca and Colbert, James and Comastri, Andrea and Elvis, Martin and Hasinger, Günther and Impey, Chris and Inskip, Katherine and Koekemoer, Anton M. and Lilly, Simon and Maier, Christian and Merloni, Andrea and Riechers, Dominik and Salvato, Mara and Schinnerer, Eva and Scoville, Nick Z. and Silverman, John and Taniguchi, Yoshi and Trump, Jonathan R. and Yan, Lin
Submitted to ApJL; 7 pages, 2 figures

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The Demography of Super-Massive Black Holes: Growing Monsters at the Heart of Galaxies

Friday, July 31st, 2009

arXiv:0907.5213

by Shankar, Francesco
70 pages. New Astronomy Reviews, in press

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Precessing supermassive black hole binaries and dark energy measurements with LISA

Friday, July 31st, 2009

arXiv:0907.4686

by Stavridis, Adamantios and Arun, K. G. and Will, Clifford M.
4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRD

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Probing seed black holes using future gravitational-wave detectors

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

arXiv:0907.3292

by Gair, Jonathan R and Mandel, Ilya and Sesana, Alberto and Vecchio, Alberto
14 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, accepted for proceedings of 13th GWDAW meeting

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Delensing Gravitational Wave Standard Sirens with Shear and Flexion Maps

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

arXiv:0907.3635

by Shapiro, Charles and Bacon, David and Hendry, Martin and Hoyle, Ben
9 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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An Improved Black Hole Mass – Bulge Luminosity Relationship for AGNs

Monday, July 13th, 2009

arXiv:0907.1652

by Gaskell, C. Martin and Kormendy, John
To appear in “Galaxy Evolution: Emerging Insights and New Challenges”, ASP Conference Series, ed. Shardha Jogee, Lei Hao, Guillermo Blanc, and Irina Marinova. 4 pages, 5 figures

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