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Archive for the ‘intermediate-mass black holes’ Category

Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5693

by Lou, Yu-Qing and Wu, Yi-Hong

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M94 As A Unique Testbed for Black Hole Mass Estimates and AGN Activity At Low Luminosities

Monday, December 19th, 2011

arXiv:1112.3668

by Constantin, Anca and Seth, Anil
11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy

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Verifying the no-hair property of massive compact objects with intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in advanced gravitational-wave detectors

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1404

by Rodriguez, Carl L. and Mandel, Ilya and Gair, Jonathan R.
12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRD

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Evidence for Three Accreting Black Holes in a Galaxy at z~1.35: A Snapshot of Recently Formed Black Hole Seeds?

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

arXiv:1111.6973

by 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

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The Gravitational Wave International Committee Roadmap: The future of gravitational wave astronomy

Monday, November 28th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5825

by 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/

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Dark matter and dark energy accretion onto intermediate-mass black holes

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5605

by Pepe, C. and Pellizza, L. J. and Romero, G. E.
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Photon Trapping Enables Super-Eddington Growth of Black-Hole Seeds in Galaxies at High Redshift

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5424

by Wyithe, Stuart and Loeb, Abraham
10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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A Dynamical N-body Model for the Central Region of $\omega$ Centauri

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1111.5011

by 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

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A Young Massive Stellar Population Around the Intermediate Mass Black Hole ESO 243-49 HLX-1

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6510

by 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

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Accretion onto Intermediate-mass Seed Black Holes in Primordial Galaxies

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3442

by Li, Yuexing
8 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to ApJ

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Kicking massive black holes off clusters: Intermediate-mass ratio inspirals

Monday, August 29th, 2011

arXiv:1108.5175

by Konstantinidis, Symeon and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Submitted

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Reverberation Mapping of the Intermediate Mass Nuclear Black Hole in SDSS J114008.71+030711.4

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4700

by 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

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Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries II: Modeling Trajectories and Gravitational Waveforms

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4421

by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Lousto, Carlos O. and Campanelli, Manuela
23 pages, 35 figures, revtex4

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Testing Photometric Diagnostics for the Dynamical State and Possible IMBH presence in Globular Clusters

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4425

by Noyola, Eva and Baumgardt, Holger
Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Black holes of intermediate masses in globular clusters: constraints on a spin of a black hole

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0056

by 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

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Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2270

by Brockamp, M. and Baumgardt, H. and Kroupa, P.
19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Kinematic signature of an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster NGC 6388

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4243

by 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

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Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center?

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2923

by 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

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Formation of Massive Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters. II. IMF and Primordial Mass Segregation

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

arXiv:1105.5884

by Goswami, Sanghamitra and Umbreit, Stefan and Bierbaum, Matt and Rasio, Frederic A.

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The Cool Accretion Disk in ESO 243-49 HLX-1: Further Evidence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Friday, April 15th, 2011

arXiv:1104.2614

by 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

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Radio Continuum Observations of 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri: Hints for Intermediate-mass Black Holes?

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

arXiv:1102.1668

by Lu, Ting-Ni and Kong, Albert K. H.
Accepted by ApJL

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On minor black holes in galactic nuclei

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0260

by McKernan, Barry and Ford, K. E. Saavik and Yaqoob, Tahir and Winter, Lisa M.
6 pages. MNRAS Letters (accepted)

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Growing Massive Black Holes in a Local Group Environment: the Central Supermassive, Slowly Sinking, and Ejected Populations

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0327

by Micic, Miroslav and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Sigurdsson, Steinn
25 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Pop III Stellar Masses and IMF

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1011.4624

by 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

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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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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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Searching for an Intermediate Mass Black Hole in the Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy MRK 996

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

arXiv:1009.5382

by Georgakakis, A. and Tsamis, Y. G. and James, B. L. and Aloisi, A.
Submitted to MNRAS

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Collisional formation of very massive stars in dense clusters

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0283

by Moeckel, Nickolas and Clarke, Cathie J.
8 pages, submitted to MNRAS. Includes revisions per referee’s comments

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Wandering Black Holes in Bright Disk Galaxy Halos

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

arXiv:1008.5147

by Bellovary, Jillian and Governato, Fabio and Quinn, Tom and Wadsley, James and Shen, Sijing and Volonteri, Marta
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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X-ray study of HLX1: intermediate-mass black hole or foreground neutron star?

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3382

by Soria, Roberto and Zampieri, Luca and Zane, Silvia and Wu, Kinwah
10 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Corrected LZ’s affiliation and updated 1 reference

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