Collisional formation of very massive stars in dense clusters
Friday, September 3rd, 2010by Moeckel, Nickolas and Clarke, Cathie J.
8 pages, submitted to MNRAS. Includes revisions per referee’s comments
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘IMRI’ Category
Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010by Bellovary, Jillian and Governato, Fabio and Quinn, Tom and Wadsley, James and Shen, Sijing and Volonteri, Marta
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries: intertwining numerical and perturbative techniques
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
31 pages, 33 figures revtex 4
A Redshift for the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate HLX-1: Confirmation of its Association with the Galaxy ESO 243-49
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Wiersema, Klaas and Farrell, Sean A. and Webb, Natalie A. and Servillat, Mathieu and Maccarone, Thomas J. and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL on 20th May 2010, accepted for publication 20th July 2010
Nuclear Star Clusters from Clustered Star Formation
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Widespread presence of shallow cusps in the surface-brightness profile of globular clusters
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Vesperini, Enrico and Trenti, Michele
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters
A new globular cluster black hole in NGC 4472
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010by Maccarone, Thomas J. and Kundu, Arunav and Zepf, Stephen E. and Rhode, Katherine L.
6 pages, one 2-panel figure, 2 tables; accepted to MNRAS
Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics
Thursday, July 29th, 2010by Alexander, Tal
Invited overview lecture in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies” (Shanghai 19-23/10/2009). To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris (12 pp 5 fig)
VLT Kinematics for omega Centauri: Further Support for a Central Black Hole
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010by Noyola, Eva and Gebhardt, Karl and Kissler-Patig, Markus and Lutzgendorf, Nora and Jalali, Behrang and de Zeeuw, P. Tim and Baumgardt, Holger
5 pages, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Early Globular Clusters
Friday, March 19th, 2010by Vesperini, Enrico and McMillan, Stephen L. W. and D’Ercole, Annibale and D’Antona, Francesca
4 pages, 1 figure, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters
Chandra and Swift Follow-up Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in ESO243-49
Monday, February 22nd, 2010by Webb, N. A. and Barret, D. and Godet, O. and Servillat, M. and Farrell, S. A. and Oates, S. R.
10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL on 12/02/2010
Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1
Friday, February 19th, 2010by Farrell, S. A. and Servillat, M. and Oates, S. R. and Heywood, I. and Godet, O. and Webb, N. A. and Barret, D.
4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted 11th of Feb 2010. Contributed talk to appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini
Young massive star clusters
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by Zwart, Simon Portegies and McMillan, Steve and Gieles, Mark
Only 88 pages. To be published in ARAA. Final version to be submitted on Friday 12 February
Towards Tests of Alternative Theories of Gravity with LISA
Thursday, January 28th, 2010by Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Yunes, Nicolas
3 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by Thibault Damour, Robert T Jantzen and Remo Ruffini, World Scientific, Singapore, 2010
Shrinking the Braneworld: Black Hole in a Globular Cluster
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009by Gnedin, Oleg Y. and Maccarone, Thomas J. and Psaltis, Dimitrios and Zepf, Stephen E.
Globular Clusters and Satellite Galaxies: Companions to the Milky Way
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009by Forbes, Duncan A. and Kroupa, Pavel and Metz, Manuel and Spitler, Lee
3 pages, published in Mercury vol. 38, No. 2, page 24. See http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/dforbes/mw.pdf for a full colour version with figures
Density and kinematic cusps in M54 at the heart of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy: evidence for a 10^4 M_sun Black Hole?
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009by Ibata, R. and Bellazzini, M. and Chapman, S. C. and Dalessandro, E. and Ferraro, F. R. and Irwin, M. and Lanzoni, B. and Lewis, G. F. and Mackey, A. D. and Miocchi, P. and Varghese, A.
Accepted for publication by The Astrophysical Journal (Letters). Latex. 5 pages, 4 color figures, 2 with reduced resolution, one in greyscale. A full-resolution color version of the paper can be retrieved from http://www.bo.astro.it/SGR/Sgr_BH.pdf
Constraining alternative theories of gravity by gravitational waves from precessing eccentric compact binaries with LISA
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Extreme- and Intermediate-Mass Ratio Inspirals in Dynamical Chern-Simons Modified Gravity
Friday, May 1st, 2009Probing Quiescent Massive Black Holes: Insights from Tidal Disruption Events
Sunday, April 19th, 2009by Gezari, Suvi and Strubbe, Linda and Bloom, Joshua S. and Grindlay, J. E. and Soderberg, Alicia and Elvis, Martin and Coppi, Paolo and Lawrence, Andrew and Ivezic, Zeljko and Merritt, David and Komossa, Stefanie and Halpern, Jules and Eracleous, Michael
8 pages, 2 figures, White Paper submitted to the 2010 Decadal Survey Galaxies Across Cosmic Time Science Frontiers Panel
Probing Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei
Sunday, April 19th, 2009by Miller, M. Coleman and Alexander, Tal and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barth, Aaron J. and Cutler, Curt and Gair, Jonathan R. and Hopman, Clovis and Merritt, David and Phinney, E. Sterl and Richstone, Douglas O.
8 pages, Science white paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Survey
The Promise of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Sunday, April 19th, 2009by Prince, T. A. and Team, for the LISA International Science
Science White Paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey
