SMBH Formation via Gas Accretion in Nuclear Stellar Clusters
Thursday, June 30th, 2011by Davies, Melvyn B. and Miller, M. Coleman and Bellovary, Jillian M.
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ letters
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The mass assembly history of black holes in the Universe
Thursday, May 26th, 2011by Natarajan, Priyamvada
28 pages, 9 figures, Proceedings of the XVth Congress of Philosophy & Foundations of Science to be published by the American Institute of Physics
Cosmic Train Wreck by Massive Black Holes: Discovery of a kpc-Scale Triple Active Galactic Nucleus
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011Cosmography with strong lensing of LISA gravitational wave sources
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011by Sereno, M. and Jetzer, Ph. and Sesana, A. and Volonteri, M.
10 pages, 10 figures, in press on MNRAS
Self-Regulated Star Formation and the Black Hole-Galaxy Bulge Relation
Thursday, March 10th, 2011by Power, C. and Zubovas, K. and Nayakshin, S. and King, A. R.
6 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
How important is the dark matter halo for black hole growth?
Thursday, March 10th, 2011by Volonteri, Marta and Natarajan, Priyamvada and Gultekin, Kayhan
Submitted to ApJ Letters
The Halo Occupation Distribution of Black Holes: Dependence on Mass
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011by DeGraf, Colin and Oborski, Matthew and Di Matteo, Tiziana and Chatterjee, Suchetana and Nagai, Daisuke and Zheng, Zheng and Richardson, Jonathan
10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Growing Massive Black Holes in a Local Group Environment: the Central Supermassive, Slowly Sinking, and Ejected Populations
Monday, February 7th, 2011by Micic, Miroslav and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Sigurdsson, Steinn
25 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Constraining the dark energy equation of state using LISA observations of spinning Massive Black Hole binaries
Monday, February 7th, 2011by Petiteau, Antoine and Babak, Stanislav and Sesana, Alberto
12 pages, 8 figures, revised version to address referee’s comments, submitted to ApJ
Probing the size of extra dimension with gravitational wave astronomy
Thursday, January 27th, 2011by Yagi, Kent and Tanahashi, Norihiro and Tanaka, Takahiro
19 pages, 10 figures; submitted to PRD
Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter halos of galaxies
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011by Kormendy, John and Bender, Ralf
12 pages, 9 Postscript figures, 1 table; published in Nature (20 January 2011)
Cosmic Lighthouses : Unveiling the nature of high-redshift galaxies
Friday, January 21st, 2011HST WFC3/IR Observations of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies at z~2: Supermassive Black Holes Grow in Disk Galaxies
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Schawinski, Kevin and Treister, Ezequiel and Urry, C. Megan and Cardamone, Carolin N. and Simmons, Brooke and Yi, Sukyoung K.
7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Strong lensing of gravitational waves as seen by LISA
Thursday, November 25th, 2010by Sereno, M. and Sesana, A. and Bleuler, A. and Jetzer, Ph. and Volonteri, M. and Begelman, M. C.
4 pages, 6 figures, in press on Phys. Rev. Lett
Pop III Stellar Masses and IMF
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010by Norman, Michael L.
11 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of “The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade”, Austin, TX, March 8-11, 2010
Massive black holes in stellar systems: ‘quiescent’ accretion and luminosity
Monday, November 22nd, 2010by Volonteri, Marta and Dotti, Massimo and Campbell, Duncan and Mateo, Mario
Submitted to ApJ
The coordinated key role of wet, mixed, and dry major mergers in the buildup of massive early-type galaxies at z<~1
Thursday, November 18th, 2010by Eliche-Moral, M. Carmen and Prieto, Mercedes and Gallego, Jesus and Zamorano, Jaime
3 figures, 6 pages, in “Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI”, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 13-17 2010, in Madrid (Spain), eds. M. R. Zapatero Osorio, A. Gil de Paz, J. Maiz Apellaniz, J.R. Pardo, and J. Gorgas
Fundamental physics and cosmology with LISA
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010by Babak, Stanislav and Gair, Jonathan R. and Petiteau, Antoine and Sesana, Alberto
Based on the talk given at GR19. 10 pages, 2 figures
Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole Mergers
Monday, October 18th, 2010by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. special issue: proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium
Constraining properties of the black hole population using LISA
Friday, October 1st, 2010by Gair, Jonathan R and Sesana, Alberto and Berti, Emanuele and Volonteri, Marta
11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. for proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium
Hierarchical Assembly of Supermassive Black Holes: Adaptive Optics Imaging of Double-Peaked [O III] Active Galactic Nuclei
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010by Fu, Hai and Myers, Adam D. and Djorgovski, S. G. and Yan, Lin
Submitted to ApJL. emulateapj style, 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. For high-resolution images see http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~fu/hires/bbh_nirc2_f1.pdf
Constraining the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with LISA Observations II: Direct comparison of detailed models
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010by Plowman, Joseph E. and Hellings, Ronald W. and Tsuruta, Sachiko
32 pages, 21 Figures, 6 Tables; Submitted to MNRAS
Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barranco, Juan and Bernal, Argelia and Rezzolla, Luciano
22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP
Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010by Bellovary, Jillian and Governato, Fabio and Quinn, Tom and Wadsley, James and Shen, Sijing and Volonteri, Marta
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
The growth of supermassive black holes fed by accretion disks
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Armijo, M. A. Montesinos and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas
10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to A&A
Recoiling Massive Black Holes in Gas-Rich Galaxy Mergers
Friday, August 13th, 2010by Guedes, Javiera and Madau, Piero and Mayer, Lucio and Callegari, Simone
15 pages, submitted to ApJ
Massive Black Hole Binary Systems in Hierarchical Scenario of Structure Formation
Monday, August 9th, 2010The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010by 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
Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves from extragalactic sources
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010by Schneider, Raffaella and Marassi, Stefania and Ferrari, Valeria
10 pages, 9 figures, proceedings of the GWDAW 10 Conference, submitted to Class. & Quantum Grav
Supermassive Black Hole Formation at High Redshifts Through a Primordial Magnetic Field
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010by Sethi, Shiv K. and Haiman, Zoltán and Pandey, Kanhaiya
submitted to ApJ, 5 emulateapj pages and 5 figures