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Archive for the ‘cosmology’ Category

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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The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution

Friday, July 10th, 2009

arXiv:0907.1608

by Cattaneo, A. and Faber, S. M. and Binney, J. and Dekel, A. and Kormendy, J. and Mushotzky, R. and Babul, A. and Best, P. N. and Brueggen, M. and Fabian, A. C. and Frenk, C. S. and Khalatyan, A. and Netzer, H. and Mahdavi, A. and Silk, J. and Steinmetz, M. and Wisotzki, L.
Nature Review 7 pages, 5 figures

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Simulations of Recoiling Massive Black Holes in the Via Lactea Halo

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0892

by Guedes, Javiera and Madau, Piero and Kuhlen, Micheal and Diemand, Jürg and Zemp, Marcel
23 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication on ApJ

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Competitive feedback in galaxy formation

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

arXiv:0907.1002

by Nayakshin, Sergei and Wilkinson, Mark I. and King, Andrew
To appear in MNRAS Letters

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Ultra-high precision cosmology from gravitational waves

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

arXiv:0906.3752

by Cutler, Curt and Holz, Daniel E.
14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to PRD

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Massive Binary Black Holes in the Cosmic Landscape

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4339

by Colpi, M. and Dotti, M.
Invited Review to appear on Advanced Science Letters (ASL), Special Issue on Computational Astrophysics, edited by Lucio Mayer

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Gravitational wave backgrounds and the cosmic transition from Population III to Population II stars

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

arXiv:0906.0461

by Marassi, Stefania and Schneider, Raffaella and Ferrari, Valeria
11 pages, 9 figures, 1 table accepted by MNRAS

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Growing the first bright quasars in cosmological simulations of structure formation

Friday, May 15th, 2009

arXiv:0905.1689

by Sijacki, Debora and Springel, Volker and Haehnelt, Martin G.
26 pages, 19 figures, MNRAS submitted

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Enhanced tidal disruption rates from massive black hole binaries

Friday, May 1st, 2009

arXiv:0904.4481

by Chen, X. and Madau, P. and Sesana, A. and Liu, F. K.
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Nature of X-shaped sources

Friday, May 1st, 2009

arXiv:0904.2725

by Lal, D. V. and Hardcastle, M. J. and Kraft, R. P. and Cheung, C. C. and Lobanov, A. P. and Zensus, J. A. and Bhatnagar, S. and Rao, A. P.
To appear in the proceedings of the Conference “The Central Kiloparsec: Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Hosts”, Ierapetra 4-6 June 2008, Greece, Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana

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The Population of Viscosity- and Gravitational Wave-Driven Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Among Luminous AGN

Monday, April 27th, 2009

arXiv:0904.1383

by Haiman, Zoltán and Kocsis, Bence and Menou, Kristen
submitted to ApJ; supersedes arXiv:0807.4697, with significant new material added

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Harmonic Gravitational Wave Spectra of Cosmic String Loops in the Galaxy

Monday, April 27th, 2009

arXiv:0904.1052

by DePies, Matthew R and Hogan, Craig J
8 pages, 8 figures

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Massive black hole binary evolution in gas-rich mergers

Monday, April 27th, 2009

arXiv:0904.0385

by Colpi, M. and Callegari, S. and Dotti, M. and Mayer, L.
8 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity, Lisa-7 Special Issue

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LISA as a dark energy probe

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

arXiv:0810.5727

by Arun, K G and Mishra, Chandra Kant and Broeck, Chris Van Den and Iyer, B R and Sathyaprakash, B S and Sinha, Siddhartha
11pages, 1 Table, minor changes in text, accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity (special issue for proceedings of 7th LISA symposium)

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Predicting the direction of the final spin from the coalescence of two black holes

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

arXiv:0904.2577

by Barausse, Enrico and Rezzolla, Luciano
4 pages, 2 figures

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Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.0338

by Sathyaprakash, B. S. and Schutz, B. F.
137 pages, 16 figures, Published version

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Journey to the M_bh – sigma relation: the fate of low mass black holes in the Universe

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.2262

by Volonteri, Marta and Natarajan, Priyamvada
8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Probing Quiescent Massive Black Holes: Insights from Tidal Disruption Events

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.1107

by Gezari, Suvi and Strubbe, Linda and Bloom, Joshua S. and Grindlay, J. E. and Soderberg, Alicia and Elvis, Martin and Coppi, Paolo and Lawrence, Andrew and Ivezic, Zeljko and Merritt, David and Komossa, Stefanie and Halpern, Jules and Eracleous, Michael
8 pages, 2 figures, White Paper submitted to the 2010 Decadal Survey Galaxies Across Cosmic Time Science Frontiers Panel

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Probing Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.0285

by Miller, M. Coleman and Alexander, Tal and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barth, Aaron J. and Cutler, Curt and Gair, Jonathan R. and Hopman, Clovis and Merritt, David and Phinney, E. Sterl and Richstone, Douglas O.
8 pages, Science white paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Survey

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The Promise of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.0103

by Prince, T. A. and Team, for the LISA International Science
Science White Paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey

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Massive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.0097

by Madau, P. and Abel, T. and Bender, P. and Di Matteo, T. and Haiman, Z. and Hughes, S. and Loeb, A. and Phinney, E. and Primack, J. and Prince, T. and Rees, M. and Richstone, D. and Schutz, B. and Thorne, K. and Volonteri, M.
Science White Paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey

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Multi-Messenger Astronomy with GRBs: A White Paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Survey

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0902.3022

by Stamatikos, Michael and Gehrels, Neil and Halzen, Francis and Meszaros, Peter and Roming, Peter W. A.
6 pages. Contributed to the Stars and Stellar Evolution (SSE) Science Frontier Panel (SFP) of the Astro2010 Decadal Survey

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Gravitational waves from an early matter era

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0901.0989

by Assadullahi, Hooshyar and Wands, David
23 pages, 2 figures

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