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Archive for the ‘EM counterparts’ Category

Dual black holes in merger remnants. II: spin evolution and gravitational recoil

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5729

by Dotti, M. and Volonteri, M. and Perego, A. and Colpi, M. and Ruszkowski, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Effective Inner Radius of Tilted Black Hole Accretion Disks

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5721

by Fragile, P. Chris
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ApJ Letters

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Post-merger electromagnetic emissions from disks perturbed by binary black holes

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4969

by Anderson, Matthew and Lehner, Luis and Megevand, Miguel and Neilsen, David
9 pages, 6 figures

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Two temperature accretion around rotating black holes: Description of general advective flow paradigm in presence of various cooling processes to explain low to high luminous sources

Monday, October 26th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4502

by Rajesh, S. R. and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
25 pages including 22 figures; to appear in MNRAS

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Emergent Spectra From Disks Surrounding Kerr Black Holes: Effect of Photon Trapping and Disk Self-Shadowing

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3530

by Li, Guang-Xing and Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cao, Xinwu
15 pages, 13 figures

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Hydrodynamical Response of a Circumbinary Gas Disk to Black Hole Recoil and Mass Loss

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.0014

by Corrales, Lia R. and Haiman, Zoltán and MacFadyen, Andrew
16 pages with 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Black hole mergers: the first light

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.0002

by Rossi, Elena M. and Lodato, G. and Armitage, P. J. and Pringle, J. E. and King, A. R.
16 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Animations of the simulations are available at http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~pja/recoil.html

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Emission Lines as a Tool in Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries and Recoiling Black Holes

Friday, September 4th, 2009

arXiv:0909.0516

by Bogdanovic, Tamara and Eracleous, Michael and Sigurdsson, Steinn
8 pages, 8 figures, submitted to the New Astronomy Reviews as a part of the SCSLSA-7 proceedings

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An Electromagnetic Signature of Galactic Black Hole Binaries That Enter Their Gravitational-Wave Induced Inspiral

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

arXiv:0909.0261

by Loeb, Abraham
3 pages

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Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole

Monday, August 10th, 2009

arXiv:0908.1100

by Alig, Christian and Burkert, Andreas and Johansson, Peter H. and Schartmann, Marc
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Modeling Flows Around Merging Black Hole Binaries

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0023

by van Meter, James R. and Wise, John H. and Miller, M. Coleman and Reynolds, Christopher S. and Centrella, Joan M. and Baker, John G. and Boggs, William D. and Kelly, Bernard J. and McWilliams, Sean T.
5 pages, 4 figures

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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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Spacetime constraints on accreting black holes

Monday, June 15th, 2009

arXiv:0906.2398

by Garofalo, David
Phys.RevD accepted

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Quasi-Periodic Flares from Star-Accretion Disc Collisions

Friday, June 5th, 2009

arXiv:0906.0800

by Dai, Lixin and Fuerst, Steven V. and Blandford, Roger
16 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS; corrected typos

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Fossil Gas and the Electromagnetic Precursor of Supermassive Binary Black Hole Mergers

Friday, June 5th, 2009

arXiv:0906.0825

by Chang, P. and Strubbe, L. E. and Menou, K. and Quataert, E.
11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Nonthermal transient phenomena around rotating black holes

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

arXiv:0905.3367

by van Putten, Maurice H. P. M.
Invited review, in Orleans School On The Sciences Of The Universe: Mass Motion (Springer-Verlag), to appear

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Stirring, not shaking: binary black holes’ effects on electromagnetic fields

Friday, May 15th, 2009

arXiv:0905.1121

by Palenzuela, Carlos and Anderson, Matthew and Lehner, Luis and Liebling, Steven L. and Neilsen, David
4 pages, 4 figures

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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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Finding and Using Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.0098

by Phinney, E. S.
Science White Paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey

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Astro2010 Decadal Survey Whitepaper: Coordinated Science in the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Skies

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0902.1527

by Bloom, Joshua S. and Holz, Daniel E. and Hughes, Scott A. and Menou, Kristen and Adams, Allan and Anderson, Scott F. and Becker, Andy and Bower, Geoffrey C. and Brandt, Niel and Cobb, Bethany and Cook, Kem and Corsi, Alessandra and Covino, Stefano and Fox, Derek and Fruchter, Andrew and Fryer, Chris and Grindlay, Jonathan and Hartmann, Dieter and Haiman, Zoltan and Kocsis, Bence and Jones, Lynne and Loeb, Abraham and Marka, Szabolcs and Metzger, Brian and Nakar, Ehud and Nissanke, Samaya and Perley, Daniel A. and Piran, Tsvi and Poznanski, Dovi and Prince, Tom and Schnittman, Jeremy and Soderberg, Alicia and Strauss, Michael and Shawhan, Peter S. and Shoemaker, David H. and Sievers, Jonathan and Stubbs, Christopher and Tagliaferri, Gianpiero and Ubertini, Pietro and Wozniak, Przemyslaw
7 pages (plus one coverpage), submitted to the US Astro2010 Decadal Survey. This is a living document, with updates expected to be posted to this archive. Those interested in contributing should contact J. S. Bloom

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