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Discovery of the Onset of Rapid Accretion by a Dormant Massive Black Hole

Friday, April 29th, 2011

arXiv:1104.4787

by Burrows, D. N. and Kennea, J. A. and Ghisellini, G. and Mangano, V. and Zhang, B. and Page, K. L. and Eracleous, M. and Romano, P. and Sakamoto, T. and Falcone, A. D. and Osborne, J. P. and Campana, S. and Beardmore, A. P. and Breeveld, A. A. and Chester, M. M. and Corbet, R. and Covino, S. and Cummings, J. R. and D’Avanzo, P. and D’Elia, V. and Esposito, P. and Evans, P. A. and Fugazza, D. and Gelbord, J. M. and Hiroi, K. and Holland, S. T. and Huang, K. Y. and Im, M. and Israel, G. and Jeon, Y. and Jeon, Y. -B. and Kawai, N. and Krimm, H. A. and Mészáros, P. and Negoro, H. and Omodei, N. and Park, W. -K. and Perkins, J. S. and Sugizaki, M. and Sung, H. -I. and Tagliaferri, G. and Troja, E. and Ueda, Y. and Urata, Y. and Usui, R. and Antonelli, L. A. and Barthelmy, S. D. and Cusumano, G. and Giommi, P. and Marshall, F. E. and Melandri, A. and Perri, M. and Racusin, J. L. and Sbarufatti, B. and Siegel, M. H. and Gehrels, N.
Submitted to Nature. 4 pages, 3 figures (main paper). 26 pages, 13 figures (supplementary information)

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Limiting eccentricity of sub-parsec massive black hole binaries surrounded by self-gravitating gas discs

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.3868

by Rödig, Constanze and Dotti, Massimo and Sesana, Alberto and Cuadra, Jorge and Colpi, Monica
10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

arXiv:1104.3257

by Bloom, Joshua S. and Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D. and Cenko, S. Bradley and Perley, Daniel A. and Butler, Nathaniel R. and Tanvir, Nial R. and Levan, Andrew J. and Brien, Paul T. O’ and Strubbe, Linda E. and De Colle, Fabio and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico and Lee, William H. and Nayakshin, Sergei and Quataert, Eliot and King, Andrew R. and Cucchiara, Antonino and Guillochon, James and Bower, Geoffrey C. and Fruchter, Andrew S. and Morgan, Adam N. and van der Horst, Alexander J.
Submitted, 32 pages including supplemental online material

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Radio transients from stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

arXiv:1102.1429

by Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D.
5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters

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Near-infrared polarimetry as a tool for testing properties of accreting super-massive black holes

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0775

by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Schoedel, R. and Witzel, G. and Sabha, N. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Straubmeier, C. and Valencia-S, M. and Zensus, J. A.
12 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

arXiv:1101.4684

by Bode, Tanja and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Haas, Roland and Healy, James and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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Tidal stellar disruptions by massive black hole pairs: II. Decaying binaries

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.4466

by Chen, Xian and Sesana, Alberto and Madau, Piero and Liu, Fukun
16 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Multiple Tidal Disruptions as an Indicator of Binary Super-Massive Black Hole Systems

Monday, November 29th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5874

by Wegg, Christopher and Bode, J. Nate
5 pages, 3 figures

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Numerical Parameter Survey of Nonradiative Black Hole Accretion — Flow Structure and Variability of the Rotation Measure

Friday, November 26th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5498

by Pang, Bijia and Pen, Ue-Li and Matzner, Christopher D. and Green, Stephen R. and Liebendörfer, Matthias

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Magnetothermal and magnetorotational instabilities in hot accretion flows

Friday, November 26th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5331

by Bu, De-Fu and Yuan, Feng and Stone, James M
7 pages, 9 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Massive black holes in stellar systems: ‘quiescent’ accretion and luminosity

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1011.4311

by Volonteri, Marta and Dotti, Massimo and Campbell, Duncan and Mateo, Mario
Submitted to ApJ

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Star Formation in Quasar Disk

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.3541

by Jiang, Yanfei and Goodman, Jeremy
34 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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Retrograde Accretion and Merging Supermassive Black Holes

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

arXiv:1011.1914

by Nixon, C. J. and Cossins, P. J. and King, A. R. and Pringle, J. E.
8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Movies of the simulations can be found at: http://www.astro.le.ac.uk/users/cjn12/RetroBinaryMovies.html

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Probing Intermediate Mass Black Holes With Optical Emission Lines from Tidally Disrupted White Dwarfs

Monday, November 1st, 2010

arXiv:1010.6087

by Clausen, Drew and Eracleous, Michael
19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole Mergers

Monday, October 18th, 2010

arXiv:1010.3250

by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. special issue: proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium

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Properties of Accretion Flows Around Coalescing Supermassive Black Holes

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2496

by Bogdanovic, Tamara and Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. for proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium

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Variability of black-hole accretion discs: a theoretical study

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2259

by Ferreira, Barbara T.
PhD thesis, 199 pages, 32 figures. For higher quality images, please contact the author

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Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M-sigma Relation

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

arXiv:1009.4940

by Blecha, Laura and Cox, Thomas J. and Loeb, Abraham and Hernquist, Lars
29 pages, 18 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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One-zone models for spheroidal galaxies with a central supermassive black-hole. Self-regulated Bondi accretion

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

arXiv:1009.5292

by Lusso, E. and Ciotti, L.
Accepted for publication in A&A, 12 pages, 5 figures

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Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0157

by Hayasaki, Kimitake
12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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A Tidal Disruption Flare in Abell 1689 from an Archival X-ray Survey of Galaxy Clusters

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4140

by Maksym, Peter and Ulmer, Melville P. and Eracleous, Michael
24 pages, including 6 figures and 2 tables Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Spectroscopic Signatures of the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4131

by Strubbe, Linda E. and Quataert, Eliot
14 pages, 5 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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Gravitational recoils of supermassive black holes in hydrodynamical simulations of gas rich galaxies

Friday, August 20th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3313

by Sijacki, Debora and Springel, Volker and Haehnelt, Martin
15 pages, 13 figures, MNRAS submitted

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Broad emission lines for negatively spinning black holes

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4937

by Dauser, T. and Wilms, J. and Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W.
7 pages, 6 figures; accepted by MNRAS for Publication

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Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: Gas Supply Driven by Star Formation

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4060

by Wang, J. -M. and Yan, C. -S. and Gao, H. -Q. and Hu, C. and Li, Y. -R. and Zhang, S.
emulateapj.sty, 5 page, 4 figures (in press)

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Papaloizou-Pringle Instability of Magnetized Accretion Tori

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3824

by Fu, Wen and Lai, Dong
15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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The Lagrange Equilibrium Points L_4 and L_5 in a Black Hole Binary System

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0182

by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ; comments welcome

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Witnessing the Birth of a Quasar

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1004.5411

by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltan and Menou, Kristen
27 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Cosmology with Standard Sirens: the Importance of the Shape of the Lensing Magnification Distribution

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.3562

by Shang, Cien and Haiman, Zoltan
16 pages, 9 tables, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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On the angular momentum transport due to vertical convection in accretion discs

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

arXiv:1002.4621

by Lesur, G. and Ogilvie, G. I.
6 pages, 5 figures, accepted in MNRAS

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