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Archive for the ‘intermediate-mass black holes’ Category

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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Croatian Black Hole School 2010 lecture notes on IMBHs in GCs

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4477

by 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 )

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A Redshift for the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate HLX-1: Confirmation of its Association with the Galaxy ESO 243-49

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4125

by 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

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Widespread presence of shallow cusps in the surface-brightness profile of globular clusters

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2771

by Vesperini, Enrico and Trenti, Michele
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters

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A new globular cluster black hole in NGC 4472

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2896

by 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

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Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4991

by 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)

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VLT Kinematics for omega Centauri: Further Support for a Central Black Hole

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4559

by 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

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The Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3563

by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Accretion onto Intermediate Mass Black Holes Regulated by Radiative Feedback I. Spherical Symmetric Accretion

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.1302

by Park, KwangHo and Ricotti, Massimo
14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ

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MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.3326

by Konstantinidis, Simos and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
24 pages, 28 figures

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Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5560

by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo

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Radio observations of NGC 6388: an upper limit on the mass of its central black hole

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4604

by 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

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Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Early Globular Clusters

Friday, March 19th, 2010

arXiv:1003.3470

by 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

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The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0680

by 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

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A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri

Monday, March 1st, 2010

arXiv:1002.5037

by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Chandra and Swift Follow-up Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in ESO243-49

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3625

by 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

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Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1

Friday, February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3404

by 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

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Young massive star clusters

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1961

by 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

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An Intermediate-mass Black Hole of Over 500 Solar Masses in the Galaxy ESO 243-49

Monday, January 11th, 2010

arXiv:1001.0567

by Farrell, Sean and Webb, Natalie and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier and Rodrigues, Joana
5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, published in Nature

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Detection of IMBHs from microlensing in globular clusters

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0912.1435

by Safonova, M. and Stalin, C. S.
10 pages, 11 figures, accepted in New Astronomy

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X-Ray Localization of the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster G1 with Chandra

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.3944

by 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

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Mass of black holes: The State of the Art

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0313

by 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

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Detection of IMBHs with ground-based gravitational wave observatories: A biography of a binary of black holes, from birth to death

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0254

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Santamaria, Lucia
Submitted to ApJ; abstract abridged, figure 1 has a lower resolution

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Binaries of massive black holes in rotating clusters: Dynamics, gravitational waves, detection and the role of eccentricity

Friday, August 7th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0755

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Eichhorn, Christoph and Porter, Ed and Spurzem, Rainer
21 pages, 12 figs, to appear in MNRAS, abstract abridged for arxiv

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Quantifying the Coexistence of Massive Black Holes and Dense Nuclear Star Clusters

Friday, July 31st, 2009

arXiv:0907.5250

by Graham, Alister W. and Spitler, Lee
To appear in MNRAS

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