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Archive for the ‘kicks/recoil’ Category

Understanding the “anti-kick” in the merger of binary black holes

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0873

by Rezzolla, Luciano and Macedo, Rodrigo P. and Jaramillo, José Luis
4 pages

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Gravitational recoil: effects on massive black hole occupation fraction over cosmic time

Friday, January 15th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1743

by Volonteri, Marta and Gultekin, Kayhan and Dotti, Massimo
Submitted to MNRAS

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Ring Formation from an Oscillating Black Hole

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4481

by Lovelace, R. V. E. and Kornreich, D. A.
7 pages, 7 figures

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The importance of precession in modelling the direction of the final spin from a black-hole merger

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

arXiv:0911.1274

by Barausse, Enrico
5 pages, 3 figures. Submitted as proceeding of the 8th Amaldi International Conference on Gravitational Waves, NYC, 21-26 June 2009

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Dual black holes in merger remnants. II: spin evolution and gravitational recoil

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.5729

by Dotti, M. and Volonteri, M. and Perego, A. and Colpi, M. and Ruszkowski, M. and Haardt, F.
11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Hydrodynamical Response of a Circumbinary Gas Disk to Black Hole Recoil and Mass Loss

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.0014

by Corrales, Lia R. and Haiman, Zoltán and MacFadyen, Andrew
16 pages with 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Black hole mergers: the first light

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

arXiv:0910.0002

by Rossi, Elena M. and Lodato, G. and Armitage, P. J. and Pringle, J. E. and King, A. R.
16 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Animations of the simulations are available at http://jilawww.colorado.edu/~pja/recoil.html

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The Quasar SDSS J105041.35+345631.3: Black Hole Recoil or Extreme Double-Peaked Emitter?

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

arXiv:0907.3470

by Shields, G. A. and Rosario, D. J. and Smith, K. L. and Bonning, E. W. and Salviander, S. and Kalirai, J. S. and Strickler, R. and Ramirez-Ruiz, E. and Dutton, A. A. and Treu, T. and Marshall, P. J.
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters

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Simulations of Recoiling Massive Black Holes in the Via Lactea Halo

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0892

by Guedes, Javiera and Madau, Piero and Kuhlen, Micheal and Diemand, Jürg and Zemp, Marcel
23 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication on ApJ

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