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Archive for the ‘EM counterparts’ Category
The Lagrange Equilibrium Points L_4 and L_5 in a Black Hole Binary System
Friday, June 4th, 2010by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ; comments welcome
Witnessing the Birth of a Quasar
Monday, May 3rd, 2010by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltan and Menou, Kristen
27 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ
Cosmology with Standard Sirens: the Importance of the Shape of the Lensing Magnification Distribution
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010by Shang, Cien and Haiman, Zoltan
16 pages, 9 tables, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS
On the angular momentum transport due to vertical convection in accretion discs
Saturday, February 27th, 2010EM counterparts of recoiling black holes: general relativistic simulations of non-Keplerian discs
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010by Zanotti, Olindo and Rezzolla, Luciano and Del Zanna, Luca and Palenzuela, Carlos
17 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS, movies available at http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/Visualisations/Archive/BinaryBlackHoles/EMCounterparts/EMCounterparts.html
Connections Between Local and Global Turbulence in Accretion Disks
Monday, February 22nd, 2010by Sorathia, Kareem A. and Reynolds, Christopher S. and Armitage, Philip J.
8 Pages, 7 Figures ApJ, In Press
Evolution and instabilities of disks harboring super massive black holes
Monday, February 15th, 2010by Curir, Anna and de Romeri, Valentina and Murante, Giuseppe
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for pubblication in “Astrophysics and Space Science”
Accretion and Outflow in Active Galaxies
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by King, Andrew
invited review, IAU Symposium 267, Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies, B.M. Peterson, R.S. Somerville, and T. Storchi-Bergmann, eds typos in eq (2.2) corrected
Magnetic Connection Model for Launching Relativistic Jets from a Kerr Black Hole
Monday, February 1st, 2010Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case
Thursday, January 28th, 2010by Noble, Scott C. and Krolik, Julian H. and Hawley, John F.
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 52 pages, 38 figures, AASTEX. High-resolution versions can be found at the following links: http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.ps, http://ccrg.rit.edu/~scn/papers/schwarzstress.pdf
On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes
Monday, January 25th, 2010by Hobbs, Alexander and Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling
Thursday, January 21st, 2010A Separable Solution for the Oscillatory Structure of Plasma in Accretion Disks
Friday, January 15th, 2010by Lattanzi, Massimiliano and Montani, Giovanni
6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Europhysics Letters
Direct Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Multi-Scale Gas Inflows in Galaxy Mergers
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009by Mayer, Lucio and Kazantzidis, Stelios and Escala, Andres and Callegari, Simone
26 pages, 4 Figures, submitted to Nature (includes Supplementary Information)
How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?
Friday, December 18th, 2009by Hopkins, Philip F. and Quataert, Eliot
15 figures, 30 pages. Submitted to MNRAS. Movies of the simulations described here can be found at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~phopkins/Site/Movies_zoom.html
Inflow-Outflow Solution with Stellar Winds and Conduction near Sgr A*
Friday, December 18th, 2009by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Baganoff, Frederick K.
3 pages, 2 figures; to be published in “The Galactic Center: a Window to the Nuclear Activity of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris et al., Astron. Soc. Pacific, 2010
Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Hyperaccreting Disks around Magnetars for Gamma-Ray Bursts: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Zhang, Dong and Dai, Z. G.
61 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, submitted to ApJ
Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
19 pages, 14 figures
Identifying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Impact of mergers on LISA parameter estimation for nonspinning black hole binaries
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by McWilliams, Sean T. and Thorpe, James Ira and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Hydrodynamic Simulations of Oscillating Shock Waves in a Sub-Keplerian Accretion Flow Around Black Holes
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Giri, Kinsuk and Chakrabarti, Sandip K. and Samanta, Madan M. and Ryu, Dongsu
19 pages, 13 figures, 1 Table MNRAS (In press)
Time-Dependent Models for the Afterglows of Massive Black Hole Mergers
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Menou, Kristen
46 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: “Binary Bondi” and “Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton” Accretion
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
33 pages, 24 Figures, two tables. Submitted to PRD
Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Disk-outflow coupling: Energetics around spinning black holes
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009by Bhattacharya, Debbijoy and Ghosh, Shubhrangshu and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
26 pages including 7 figures; submitted in ApJ
Dual black holes in merger remnants. II: spin evolution and gravitational recoil
Monday, November 2nd, 2009by 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