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
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Archive for the ‘intermediate-mass black holes’ Category
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
Croatian Black Hole School 2010 lecture notes on IMBHs in GCs
Friday, August 27th, 2010by Pasquato, Mario
These lecture notes are based on the series of invited lectures on IMBHs I delivered at the June 2010 Croatian Black Hole School ( organizer: Jarah Evslin, site: http://antimodave.jimdo.com )
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
Widespread 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
Accretion onto Intermediate Mass Black Holes Regulated by Radiative Feedback I. Spherical Symmetric Accretion
Friday, June 18th, 2010MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters
Friday, June 18th, 2010Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo
Radio observations of NGC 6388: an upper limit on the mass of its central black hole
Thursday, March 25th, 2010by Cseh, D. and Kaaret, P. and Corbel, S. and Kording, E. and Coriat, M. and Tzioumis, A. and Lanzoni, B.
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in 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
The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole
Thursday, March 4th, 2010by Seth, Anil C. and Cappellari, Michele and Neumayer, Nadine and Caldwell, Nelson and Bastian, Nate and Olsen, Knut and Blum, Robert D. and Debattista, Victor P. and McDermid, Richard and Puzia, Thomas and Stephens, Andrew
To appear in ApJ. 21 pages, 19 figures, higher resolution PDF available at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~aseth/ngc404paper.pdf
A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri
Monday, March 1st, 2010by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics
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
An Intermediate-mass Black Hole of Over 500 Solar Masses in the Galaxy ESO 243-49
Monday, January 11th, 2010by Farrell, Sean and Webb, Natalie and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier and Rodrigues, Joana
5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, published in Nature
Detection of IMBHs from microlensing in globular clusters
Thursday, December 17th, 2009by Safonova, M. and Stalin, C. S.
10 pages, 11 figures, accepted in New Astronomy
X-Ray Localization of the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster G1 with Chandra
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009by Kong, A. K. H. and Heinke, C. O. and Di Stefano, R. and Barmby, P. and Lewin, W. H. G. and Primini, F. A.
5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJL
Mass of black holes: The State of the Art
Monday, October 5th, 2009by Czerny, B. and Nikolajuk, M.
Submitted to proceedings of the Frascati Workshop 2009, Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources, Vulcano (Italy), May 25 – 30
Detection of IMBHs with ground-based gravitational wave observatories: A biography of a binary of black holes, from birth to death
Monday, October 5th, 2009by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Santamaria, Lucia
Submitted to ApJ; abstract abridged, figure 1 has a lower resolution
Binaries of massive black holes in rotating clusters: Dynamics, gravitational waves, detection and the role of eccentricity
Friday, August 7th, 2009by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Eichhorn, Christoph and Porter, Ed and Spurzem, Rainer
21 pages, 12 figs, to appear in MNRAS, abstract abridged for arxiv