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Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs from Ultra-Close Encounters with Intermediate Mass Spinning Black Holes

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

arXiv:1201.4389

by Haas, Roland and Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Bode, Tanja and Laguna, Pablo
15 pages, 17 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal

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Gravitational wave diagnosis of a circumbinary disk

Monday, January 16th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2858

by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Yagi, Kent and Tanaka, Takahiro and Mineshige, Shin
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Accretion Disc Theory since Shakura and Sunyaev

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2060

by King, Andrew
to appear in proceedings of `The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables’, Memorie Societa’ Astronomica Italiana, 2012 (F. Giovannelli and L. Sabau-Graziati eds.)

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Broken discs: warp propagation in accretion discs

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1297

by Nixon, Chris and King, Andrew
8 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Multiphase, non-spherical gas accretion onto a black hole

Monday, December 26th, 2011

arXiv:1112.5483

by Barai, Paramita and Proga, Daniel and Nagamine, Kentaro
23 pages, 11 figures, submitted. Uploaded version contains low-resolution color figures. Version with high-resolution figures can be found at: http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~barai/AllPages/Images-Movies/BHaccr_MultiPhase.pdf

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Radio Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451. I. Jet Energetics and the Pristine Parsec-Scale Environment of a Supermassive Black Hole

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1697

by Berger, E. and Zauderer, A. and Pooley, G. G. and Soderberg, A. M. and Sari, R. and Brunthaler, A. and Bietenholz, M. F.
Submitted to ApJ; 22 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures

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Improving the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with an integral approach to calculate gradients

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3261

by Garcia-Senz, Domingo and Cabezon, Ruben M. and Escartin, Jose Antonio
15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Convergence of SPH simulations of self-gravitating accretion discs: Sensitivity to the implementation of radiative cooling

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3147

by Rice, W. K. M. and Forgan, D. H. and Armitage, P. J.
9 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS in press

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Dusty gas with SPH – II. Implicit timestepping and astrophysical drag regimes

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3089

by Laibe, Guillaume and Price, Daniel J.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Dusty gas with SPH – I. Algorithm and test suite

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.3090

by Laibe, Guillaume and Price, Daniel J.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Jets from Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Black Holes

Monday, November 14th, 2011

arXiv:1111.2802

by Krolik, Julian H. and Piran, Tsvi

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Sgr A* flares: tidal disruption of asteroids and planets?

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6872

by Zubovas, Kastytis and Nayakshin, Sergei and Markoff, Sera
11 pages. MNRAS submitted

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Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.6660

by Stone, Nicholas and Loeb, Abraham
4 pages, 4 figures

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On the detectability of dual jets from binary black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1177

by Moesta, Philipp and Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Zanotti, Olindo and Palenzuela, Carlos
4 pages, 3 figures

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1H0707-495 in 2011: An X-ray source within a gravitational radius of the event horizon

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

arXiv:1108.5988

by Fabian, A. C. and Zoghbi, A. and Wilkins, D. and Dwelly, T. and Uttley, P. and Schartel, N. and Miniutti, G. and Gallo, L. and Grupe, D. and Komossa, S. and Santos-Lleo, M.
9 pages, 19 figures, MNRAS in press

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Electromagnetic counterparts from counter-rotating relativistic kicked discs

Friday, August 19th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3654

by Zanotti, Olindo
6 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by New Astronomy

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Slim accretion disks around black holes

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0396

by Sadowski, A.
Ph.D. thesis written under the supervision of Prof. Marek Abramowicz and defended on July 1, 2011 at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences; 206 pages

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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, 2011

arXiv:1108.0110

by Dubois, Yohan and Devriendt, Julien and Slyz, Adrianne and Teyssier, Romain
24 pages, 18 figures, 1 table, submitted to MNRAS

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Stability of self-gravitating discs under irradiation

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1194

by Rice, W. K. M. and Armitage, P. J. and Mamatsashvili, G. R. and Lodato, G. and Clarke, C. J.
MNRAS, in press

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Electromagnetic counterparts of supermassive black hole binaries resolved by pulsar timing arrays

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2937

by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltán and Menou, Kristen
16 pages with 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Multimessenger astronomy with pulsar timing and X-ray observations of massive black hole binaries

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2927

by Sesana, A. and Roedig, C. and Reynolds, M. T. and Dotti, M.
19 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Accretion disks around kicked black holes: Post-kick Dynamics

Monday, July 11th, 2011

arXiv:1107.1711

by Ponce, Marcelo and Faber, Joshua A. and Lombardi, James C.
Submitted to ApJ. Movies available as ‘ancillary files’

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3C390.3: More Stable Evidence for Origination of Double-Peaked Broad Balmer Lines from Accretion Disk Near Central Black Hole

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0455

by Zhang, Xue-Guang
17 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS accepted

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Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.3069

by Wong, Ka-Wah and Irwin, Jimmy A. and Yukita, Mihoko and Million, Evan T. and Mathews, William G. and Bregman, Joel N.
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Tidal disruptions of separated binaries in galactic nuclei

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1429

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Miller, M. Coleman and Kennedy, Gareth F.
Submitted to MNRAS

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Swift J1644+57: A White Dwarf Tidally Disrupted by a 10^4 M_{odot} Black Hole?

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

arXiv:1106.0923

by Krolik, Julian H. and Piran, Tsvi

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Tidal Disruption Flares of Stars From Moderately Recoiled Black Holes

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

arXiv:1105.4966

by Stone, Nicholas and Loeb, Abraham
15 pages, 8 figures

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Radiative efficiency and thermal spectrum of accretion onto Schwarzschild black holes

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2825

by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Schnittman, Jeremy D. and Hawley, John F.
Submitted to ApJ, 26 pages, 12 figures (some in color), AASTEX

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Tidal Disruption Flares: The Accretion Disk Phase

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

arXiv:1105.2060

by Armijo, Matias Montesinos and Pacheco, José A. de Freitas
14 pages, 11 figures, Submitted to the ApJ

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Black Hole Accretion Disks

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.5499

by Abramowicz, Marek A. and Fragile, P. Chris
58 pages, 22 figures, submitted to Living Reviews in Relativity

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