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Archive for the ‘intermediate-mass black holes’ Category
M94 As A Unique Testbed for Black Hole Mass Estimates and AGN Activity At Low Luminosities
Monday, December 19th, 2011by Constantin, Anca and Seth, Anil
11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
Verifying the no-hair property of massive compact objects with intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in advanced gravitational-wave detectors
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Rodriguez, Carl L. and Mandel, Ilya and Gair, Jonathan R.
12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRD
Evidence for Three Accreting Black Holes in a Galaxy at z~1.35: A Snapshot of Recently Formed Black Hole Seeds?
Thursday, December 1st, 2011by Schawinski, Kevin and Urry, Meg and Treister, Ezequiel and Simmons, Brooke and Natarajan, Priyamvada and Glikman, Eilat
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
The Gravitational Wave International Committee Roadmap: The future of gravitational wave astronomy
Monday, November 28th, 2011by Marx, Jay and Danzmann, Karsten and Hough, James and Kuroda, Kazuaki and McClelland, David and Mours, Benoit and Phinney, Sterl and Rowan, Sheila and Sathyaprakash, B. and Vetrano, Flavio and Vitale, Stefano and Whitcomb, Stan and Will, Clifford
116 pages. Original document in higher resolution can be found at https://gwic.ligo.org/roadmap/
Dark matter and dark energy accretion onto intermediate-mass black holes
Thursday, November 24th, 2011by Pepe, C. and Pellizza, L. J. and Romero, G. E.
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Photon Trapping Enables Super-Eddington Growth of Black-Hole Seeds in Galaxies at High Redshift
Thursday, November 24th, 2011A Dynamical N-body Model for the Central Region of $\omega$ Centauri
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011by Jalali, B. and Baumgardt, H. and Kissler-Patig, M. and Gebhardt, K. and Noyola, E. and Lützgendorf, N. and de Zeeuw, P. T.
Accepted for publication in A&A
A Young Massive Stellar Population Around the Intermediate Mass Black Hole ESO 243-49 HLX-1
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Farrell, S. and Servillat, M. and Pforr, J. and Maccarone, T. and Knigge, C. and Godet, O. and Maraston, C. and Webb, N. and Barret, D. and Gosling, A. and Belmont, R. and Wiersema, K.
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL
Accretion onto Intermediate-mass Seed Black Holes in Primordial Galaxies
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011Kicking massive black holes off clusters: Intermediate-mass ratio inspirals
Monday, August 29th, 2011by Konstantinidis, Symeon and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Submitted
Reverberation Mapping of the Intermediate Mass Nuclear Black Hole in SDSS J114008.71+030711.4
Thursday, August 25th, 2011by Rafter, Stephen and Kaspi, Shai and Behar, Ehud and Kollatschny, Wolfram and Zetzl, Matthias
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 21 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables
Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Lousto, Carlos O. and Campanelli, Manuela
23 pages, 35 figures, revtex4
Testing Photometric Diagnostics for the Dynamical State and Possible IMBH presence in Globular Clusters
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011Black holes of intermediate masses in globular clusters: constraints on a spin of a black hole
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Buliga, S. D. and Globina, V. I. and Gnedin, Yu. N. and Natsvlishvili, T. M. and Piotrovich, M. Yu. and Shaht, N. A.
4 pages
Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Brockamp, M. and Baumgardt, H. and Kroupa, P.
19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Kinematic signature of an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster NGC 6388
Friday, July 22nd, 2011by Lützgendorf, N. and Kissler-Patig, M. and Noyola, E. and Jalali, B. and de Zeeuw, P. T. and Gebhardt, K. and Baumgardt, H.
12 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center?
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Lang, Meagan and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto
9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome and may be incorporated into the paper with attribution
Formation of Massive Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters. II. IMF and Primordial Mass Segregation
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011by Goswami, Sanghamitra and Umbreit, Stefan and Bierbaum, Matt and Rasio, Frederic A.
The Cool Accretion Disk in ESO 243-49 HLX-1: Further Evidence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole
Friday, April 15th, 2011by Davis, Shane W. and Narayan, Ramesh and Zhu, Yucong and Barret, Didier and Farrell, Sean A. and Godet, Olivier and Servillat, Mathieu and Webb, Natalie A.
10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Radio Continuum Observations of 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri: Hints for Intermediate-mass Black Holes?
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011On minor black holes in galactic nuclei
Monday, February 7th, 2011by McKernan, Barry and Ford, K. E. Saavik and Yaqoob, Tahir and Winter, Lisa M.
6 pages. MNRAS Letters (accepted)
Growing Massive Black Holes in a Local Group Environment: the Central Supermassive, Slowly Sinking, and Ejected Populations
Monday, February 7th, 2011by Micic, Miroslav and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Sigurdsson, Steinn
25 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Pop III Stellar Masses and IMF
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010by Norman, Michael L.
11 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of “The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade”, Austin, TX, March 8-11, 2010
Massive black holes in stellar systems: ‘quiescent’ accretion and luminosity
Monday, November 22nd, 2010by Volonteri, Marta and Dotti, Massimo and Campbell, Duncan and Mateo, Mario
Submitted to ApJ
Probing Intermediate Mass Black Holes With Optical Emission Lines from Tidally Disrupted White Dwarfs
Monday, November 1st, 2010by Clausen, Drew and Eracleous, Michael
19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Searching for an Intermediate Mass Black Hole in the Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy MRK 996
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010by Georgakakis, A. and Tsamis, Y. G. and James, B. L. and Aloisi, A.
Submitted to MNRAS
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
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
X-ray study of HLX1: intermediate-mass black hole or foreground neutron star?
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Soria, Roberto and Zampieri, Luca and Zane, Silvia and Wu, Kinwah
10 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Corrected LZ’s affiliation and updated 1 reference