Gravitational wave diagnosis of a circumbinary disk
Monday, January 16th, 2012by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Yagi, Kent and Tanaka, Takahiro and Mineshige, Shin
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ
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Archive for the ‘massive binaries of black holes’ Category
Double-peaked Narrow-Line Signatures of Dual Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Merger Simulations
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by Blecha, Laura and Loeb, Abraham and Narayan, Ramesh
20 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Is J enough? Comparison of gravitational waves emitted along the total angular momentum direction with other preferred orientations
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by O’Shaughnessy, R. and Healy, J. and London, L. and Meeks, Z. and Shoemaker, D.
Submitted to PRD
Erratic Jet Wobbling in the BL Lacertae Object OJ287 Revealed by Sixteen Years of 7mm VLBA Observations
Saturday, December 24th, 2011by 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
Gravitational radiation from compact binary systems in the massive Brans-Dicke theory of gravity
Saturday, December 24th, 2011by Alsing, Justin and Berti, Emanuele and Will, Clifford and Zaglauer, Helmut
19 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes in Spin-flip Radio Galaxies
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Liu, F. K. and Wang, Dong and Chen, Xian
47 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ
The Limited Role of Mergers in the Black Hole to Bulge Mass Relation
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Lahav, Carmit Gordon and Meiron, Yohai and Soker, Noam
10 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Observational Evidence for a Correlation Between Jet Power and Black Hole Spin
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Narayan, Ramesh and McClintock, Jeffrey E.
Published online in MNRAS, November 21, 2011
The Gravitational Wave International Committee Roadmap: The future of gravitational wave astronomy
Monday, November 28th, 2011by 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/
The complete non-spinning effective-one-body metric at linear order in the mass ratio
Thursday, November 24th, 2011by Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra and Tiec, Alexandre Le
11 pages, 2 figures
Gravitational Self-Force Correction to the Binding Energy of Compact Binary Systems
Thursday, November 24th, 2011by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Barausse, Enrico and Buonanno, Alessandra
5 pages, 1 figure
The First Law of Binary Black Hole Mechanics in General Relativity and Post-Newtonian Theory
Thursday, November 24th, 2011by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Blanchet, Luc and Whiting, Bernard F.
43 pages, 3 figures
Kiloparsec-scale Spatial Offsets in Double-peaked Narrow-line AGNs. I. Markers for Selection of Compelling Dual AGN Candidates
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011by 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
Modeling multipolar gravitational-wave emission from small mass-ratio mergers
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by 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
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, 2011by Aranha, R. F. and Soares, I. Damião and Tonini, E. V.
18 pages, 12 Figures
Massive black hole binaries: dynamical evolution and observational signatures
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Dotti, M. and Sesana, A. and Decarli, R.
4 Figures. Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
A practical guide to the massive black hole cosmic history
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Sesana, A.
21 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
Post-Newtonian, Quasi-Circular Binary Inspirals in Quadratic Modified Gravity
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Yagi, Kent and Stein, Leo C. and Yunes, Nicolas and Tanaka, Takahiro
26 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; submitted to PRD
Optical polarization angle and VLBI jet direction in the binary black hole model of OJ287
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Valtonen, Mauri J. and Villforth, Carolin and Wiik, Kaj
to appear in Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society
Energy versus Angular Momentum in Black Hole Binaries
Friday, October 14th, 2011by Damour, Thibault and Nagar, Alessandro and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
4 pages, 2 figures
Elimination of the spin supplementary condition in the effective field theory approach to the post-Newtonian approximation
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Hergt, Steven and Steinhoff, Jan and Schaefer, Gerhard
37 pages, submitted
Accurate gravitational waveforms for binary-black-hole mergers with nearly extremal spins
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Boyle, Michael and Scheel, Mark A. and Szilagyi, Bela
17 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Effects of supermassive binary black holes on gravitational lenses
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Li, Nan and Mao, Shude and Gao, Liang and Loeb, Abraham and Di Stefano, R.
9 pages, 5 figures
Massive black hole binary plane reorientation in rotating stellar systems
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Gualandris, Alessia and Dotti, Massimo and Sesana, Alberto
5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS
A Candidate Dual AGN at z=1.175
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by 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
On the detectability of dual jets from binary black holes
Monday, September 12th, 2011by Moesta, Philipp and Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Zanotti, Olindo and Palenzuela, Carlos
4 pages, 3 figures
LBQS 0103-2753: A Binary Quasar in a Major Merger
Monday, September 12th, 2011by 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
Blindly detecting orbital modulations of jets from merging supermassive black holes
Monday, September 12th, 2011by 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
Super-massive binary black holes and emission lines in active galactic nuclei
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011by 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
A Close Nuclear Black Hole Pair in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3393
Monday, September 5th, 2011by Fabbiano, G. and Junfeng, Wang and Elvis, M. and Risaliti, G.
Preprint (not final) version of a paper to appear in Nature