Testing black hole no-hair theorem with OJ287
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011by Valtonen, M. J. and Mikkola, S. and Lehto, H. J. and Gopakumar, A. and Hudec, R. and Polednikova, J.
14 pages, 14 figures
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
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Archive for the ‘massive binaries of black holes’ Category
Stability and chaos of hierarchical three black hole configurations
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011Testing General Relativity with LISA including Spin Precession and Higher Harmonics in the Waveform
Friday, August 19th, 2011by Huwyler, Cédric and Klein, Antoine and Jetzer, Philippe
26 pages, 28 figures
Electromagnetic counterparts from counter-rotating relativistic kicked discs
Friday, August 19th, 2011Modelling variability in black hole binaries: linking simulations to observations
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Hangup Kicks: Still Larger Recoils by Partial Spin/Orbit Alignment of Black-Hole Binaries
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Model for common growth of supermassive black holes, bulges and globular star clusters: ripping off Jeans clusters
Thursday, August 18th, 2011The gravitational-wave memory from eccentric binaries
Thursday, August 18th, 2011Coalescence Rate of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Derived from Cosmological Simulations: Detection Rates for LISA and ET
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Filloux, Ch. and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas and Durier, F. and de Araujo, J. C. N.
18 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the IJMPD
Binary dynamics from spin1-spin2 coupling at fourth post-Newtonian order
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Next-to-next-to-leading order post-Newtonian spin(1)-spin(2) Hamiltonian for self-gravitating binaries
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Long-term evolution of massive black hole binaries. IV. Mergers of galaxies with collisionally relaxed nuclei
Friday, July 22nd, 2011by Gualandris, Alessia and Merritt, David
22 pages, 23 figures, submitted to ApJ
Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center?
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Lang, Meagan and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto
9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome and may be incorporated into the paper with attribution
Assessing the redshift evolution of massive black holes and their hosts
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Mergers of black-hole binaries with aligned spins: Waveform characteristics
Thursday, July 7th, 2011by Kelly, Bernard J. and Baker, John G. and Boggs, William D. and McWilliams, Sean T. and Centrella, Joan
19 pages, 17 figures
Reliability of complete gravitational waveform models for compact binary coalescences
Thursday, July 7th, 2011by Ohme, Frank and Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha
15 pages, 9 figures, PDFLaTeX
Formation of galactic nuclei with multiple supermassive black holes at high redshifts
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011by Kulkarni, Girish and Loeb, Abraham
18 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables; submitted to MNRAS; comments welcome
Binary Black Hole Waveform Extraction at Null Infinity
Monday, June 27th, 2011Effective one body Hamiltonian of two spinning black-holes with next-to-next-to-leading order spin-orbit coupling
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011Periastron Advance in Black Hole Binaries
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by Tiec, Alexandre Le and Mroué, Abdul H. and Barack, Leor and Buonanno, Alessandra and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Sago, Norichika and Taracchini, Andrea
5 pages, 3 figures
Chandra Discovery of a Binary AGN in Mrk 739
Sunday, June 19th, 2011by Koss, Michael and Mushotzky, Richard and Treister, Ezequiel and Veilleux, Sylvain and Vasudevan, Ranjan and Miller, Neal and Sanders, D. B. and Schawinski, Kevin and Trippe, Margaret
9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Chandra Observations of a 1.9 kpc Separation Double X-ray Source in a Candidate Dual AGN Galaxy at z=0.16
Thursday, June 9th, 2011by Comerford, Julia M. and Pooley, David and Gerke, Brian F. and Madejski, Greg M.
6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL
BH masses in NLS1: the role of the broad-line region geometry
Thursday, June 9th, 2011by Decarli, R. and Dotti, M. and Haardt, F. and Zibetti, S.
Proceeding of the workshop: “Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and their place in the Universe”, April 04-06, 2011, Milan
Inspiral-merger-ringdown multipolar waveforms of nonspinning black-hole binaries using the effective-one-body formalism
Thursday, June 9th, 2011by Pan, Yi and Buonanno, Alessandra and Boyle, Michael and Buchman, Luisa T. and Kidder, Lawrence E. and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Scheel, Mark A.
26 pages, 25 figures
A systematic search for massive black hole binaries in SDSS spectroscopic sample
Thursday, June 9th, 2011by Tsalmantza, P. and Decarli, R. and Dotti, M. and Hogg, David W.
10 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Tidal Disruption Flares of Stars From Moderately Recoiled Black Holes
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Binary black hole mergers in gaseous disks: Simulations in general relativity
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011by Farris, Brian D. and Liu, Yuk Tung and Shapiro, Stuart L.
submitted to PRD
The spatial and velocity distributions of hypervelocity stars
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011Tail-induced spin-orbit effect in the gravitational radiation of compact binaries
Monday, May 2nd, 2011by Blanchet, Luc and Buonanno, Alessandra and Faye, Guillaume
Submitted to Physical Review D
Sky localization of complete inspiral-merger-ringdown signals for nonspinning massive black hole binaries
Monday, May 2nd, 2011by McWilliams, Sean T. and Lang, Ryan N. and Baker, John G. and Thorpe, James Ira
9 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D