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Archive for the ‘EM counterparts’ Category

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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EM counterparts of recoiling black holes: general relativistic simulations of non-Keplerian discs

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.4185

by 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

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Connections Between Local and Global Turbulence in Accretion Disks

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3611

by Sorathia, Kareem A. and Reynolds, Christopher S. and Armitage, Philip J.
8 Pages, 7 Figures ApJ, In Press

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Evolution and instabilities of disks harboring super massive black holes

Monday, February 15th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2562

by Curir, Anna and de Romeri, Valentina and Murante, Giuseppe
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for pubblication in “Astrophysics and Space Science”

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Accretion and Outflow in Active Galaxies

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1808

by 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

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Magnetic Connection Model for Launching Relativistic Jets from a Kerr Black Hole

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5434

by Dutan, Ioana
12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Dependence of inner accretion disk stress on parameters: the Schwarzschild case

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4809

by 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

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On the role of supernovae-driven turbulence in the feeding of supermassive black holes

Monday, January 25th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3883

by Hobbs, Alexander and Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew
19 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulation of hot accretion flows with radiative cooling

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3571

by Yuan, Feng and Bu, Defu
9 pages, 9 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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A Separable Solution for the Oscillatory Structure of Plasma in Accretion Disks

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.2430

by Lattanzi, Massimiliano and Montani, Giovanni
6 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Europhysics Letters

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Direct Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Multi-Scale Gas Inflows in Galaxy Mergers

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

arXiv:0912.4262

by Mayer, Lucio and Kazantzidis, Stelios and Escala, Andres and Callegari, Simone
26 pages, 4 Figures, submitted to Nature (includes Supplementary Information)

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How Do Massive Black Holes Get Their Gas?

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3257

by 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

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Inflow-Outflow Solution with Stellar Winds and Conduction near Sgr A*

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3255

by 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

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Understanding possible electromagnetic counterparts to loud gravitational wave events: Binary black hole effects on electromagnetic fields

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3889

by Palenzuela, Carlos and Lehner, Luis and Yoshida, Shin
12 pages

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Hyperaccreting Disks around Magnetars for Gamma-Ray Bursts: Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5528

by Zhang, Dong and Dai, Z. G.
61 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, submitted to ApJ

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Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.5711

by Krolik, Julian H.
14 pages. Ap J, in press

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Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes and their Electromagnetic Signatures

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0087

by Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
19 pages, 14 figures

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Identifying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries With Broad Emission Line Diagnosis

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.0541

by Shen, Yue and Loeb, Abraham
11 pages. Submitted to MNRAS

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Impact of mergers on LISA parameter estimation for nonspinning black hole binaries

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1078

by McWilliams, Sean T. and Thorpe, James Ira and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D

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Hydrodynamic Simulations of Oscillating Shock Waves in a Sub-Keplerian Accretion Flow Around Black Holes

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.1174

by Giri, Kinsuk and Chakrabarti, Sandip K. and Samanta, Madan M. and Ryu, Dongsu
19 pages, 13 figures, 1 Table MNRAS (In press)

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Time-Dependent Models for the Afterglows of Massive Black Hole Mergers

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2054

by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Menou, Kristen
46 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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Binary Black Hole Mergers in Gaseous Environments: “Binary Bondi” and “Binary Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton” Accretion

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2096

by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
33 pages, 24 Figures, two tables. Submitted to PRD

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Filling the disk hollow following binary black hole merger: The transient accretion afterglow

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.2345

by Shapiro, Stuart L.
9 pages, 5 figures; submitted to PRD

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Disk-outflow coupling: Energetics around spinning black holes

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.3049

by Bhattacharya, Debbijoy and Ghosh, Shubhrangshu and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
26 pages including 7 figures; submitted in ApJ

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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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