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Archive for the ‘massive binaries of black holes’ Category

Gravitational wave diagnosis of a circumbinary disk

Monday, January 16th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2858

by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Yagi, Kent and Tanaka, Takahiro and Mineshige, Shin
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Double-peaked Narrow-Line Signatures of Dual Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Merger Simulations

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1904

by Blecha, Laura and Loeb, Abraham and Narayan, Ramesh
20 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Is J enough? Comparison of gravitational waves emitted along the total angular momentum direction with other preferred orientations

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

arXiv:1201.2113

by O’Shaughnessy, R. and Healy, J. and London, L. and Meeks, Z. and Shoemaker, D.
Submitted to PRD

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Erratic Jet Wobbling in the BL Lacertae Object OJ287 Revealed by Sixteen Years of 7mm VLBA Observations

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4747

by Agudo, Ivan and Marscher, Alan P. and Jorstad, Svetlana G. and Gomez, Jose L. and Perucho, Manel and Piner, B. Glenn and Rioja, Maria and Dodson, Richard
Accepted for Publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables. High resolution images on figure 1 and complete tables 1 and 2 may be provided on request

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Gravitational radiation from compact binary systems in the massive Brans-Dicke theory of gravity

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4903

by Alsing, Justin and Berti, Emanuele and Will, Clifford and Zaglauer, Helmut
19 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes in Spin-flip Radio Galaxies

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1081

by Liu, F. K. and Wang, Dong and Chen, Xian
47 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ

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The Limited Role of Mergers in the Black Hole to Bulge Mass Relation

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

arXiv:1112.0782

by Lahav, Carmit Gordon and Meiron, Yohai and Soker, Noam
10 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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Observational Evidence for a Correlation Between Jet Power and Black Hole Spin

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

arXiv:1112.0569

by Narayan, Ramesh and McClintock, Jeffrey E.
Published online in MNRAS, November 21, 2011

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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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The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5610

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Tiec, Alexandre Le
11 pages, 2 figures

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Gravitational Self-Force Correction to the Binding Energy of Compact Binary Systems

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5609

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra
5 pages, 1 figure

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The First Law of Binary Black Hole Mechanics in General Relativity and Post-Newtonian Theory

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5378

by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Blanchet, Luc and Whiting, Bernard F.
43 pages, 3 figures

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Kiloparsec-scale Spatial Offsets in Double-peaked Narrow-line AGNs. I. Markers for Selection of Compelling Dual AGN Candidates

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

arXiv:1111.2862

by Comerford, Julia M. and Gerke, Brian F. and Stern, Daniel and Cooper, Michael C. and Weiner, Benjamin J. and Newman, Jeffrey A. and Harrison, Fiona and Madsen, Kristin and Barrows, R. Scott
11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Modeling multipolar gravitational-wave emission from small mass-ratio mergers

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.3081

by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Hughes, Scott A. and Khanna, Gaurav and O’Sullivan, Stephen and Pan, Yi
19 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables

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Mass-Energy and Momentum Extraction by Gravitational Wave Emission in the Merger of Two Colliding Black Holes: The Non-Head-On Case

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1111.1223

by Aranha, R. F. and Soares, I. Damião and Tonini, E. V.
18 pages, 12 Figures

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Massive black hole binaries: dynamical evolution and observational signatures

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1111.0664

by Dotti, M. and Sesana, A. and Decarli, R.
4 Figures. Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy

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A practical guide to the massive black hole cosmic history

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6445

by Sesana, A.
21 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy

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Post-Newtonian, Quasi-Circular Binary Inspirals in Quadratic Modified Gravity

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5950

by Yagi, Kent and Stein, Leo C. and Yunes, Nicolas and Tanaka, Takahiro
26 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; submitted to PRD

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Optical polarization angle and VLBI jet direction in the binary black hole model of OJ287

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1111.1539

by Valtonen, Mauri J. and Villforth, Carolin and Wiik, Kaj
to appear in Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society

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Energy versus Angular Momentum in Black Hole Binaries

Friday, October 14th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2938

by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
4 pages, 2 figures

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Elimination of the spin supplementary condition in the effective field theory approach to the post-Newtonian approximation

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2094

by Hergt, Steven and Steinhoff, Jan and Schaefer, Gerhard
37 pages, submitted

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Accurate gravitational waveforms for binary-black-hole mergers with nearly extremal spins

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.2229

by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Boyle, Michael and Scheel, Mark A. and Szilagyi, Bela
17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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Effects of supermassive binary black holes on gravitational lenses

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

arXiv:1110.0887

by Li, Nan and Mao, Shude and Gao, Liang and Loeb, Abraham and Di Stefano, R.
9 pages, 5 figures

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Massive black hole binary plane reorientation in rotating stellar systems

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3707

by Gualandris, Alessia and Dotti, Massimo and Sesana, Alberto
5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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A Candidate Dual AGN at z=1.175

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3469

by Barrows, R. Scott and Stern, Daniel and Madsen, Kristin and Harrison, Fiona and Assef, Roberto J. and Comerford, Julia M. and Cushing, Michael C. and Fassnacht, Christopher D. and Gonzalez, Anthony and Griffith, Roger and Hickox, Ryan and Kirkpatrick, J. Davy and Lagattuta, David J.
18 pages and 9 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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On the detectability of dual jets from binary black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1177

by Moesta, Philipp and Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Zanotti, Olindo and Palenzuela, Carlos
4 pages, 3 figures

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LBQS 0103-2753: A Binary Quasar in a Major Merger

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1524

by Shields, G. A. and Rosario, D. J. and Junkkarinen, V. and Chapman, S. C. and Bonning, E. W. and Chiba, T.
14 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal

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Blindly detecting orbital modulations of jets from merging supermassive black holes

Monday, September 12th, 2011

arXiv:1109.1050

by O’Shaughnessy, R. and Kaplan, D. L. and Sesana, A. and Kamble, A.
Submitted to ApJ. v1 original submission; v2 minor changes in response to referee

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Super-massive binary black holes and emission lines in active galactic nuclei

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0710

by Popovic, Luka C.
The work was presented as an invited talk at special workshop “Spectral lines and super-massive black holes” held on June 10, 2011 as a part of activity within the frame of COST action 0905 “Black holes in a violent universe” and as a part of the 8th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics.Sent to New Astronomy Review as a review paper

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A Close Nuclear Black Hole Pair in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393

Monday, September 5th, 2011

arXiv:1109.0483

by Fabbiano, G. and Junfeng, Wang and Elvis, M. and Risaliti, G.
Preprint (not final) version of a paper to appear in Nature

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