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Archive for the ‘massive binaries of black holes’ Category

Limiting eccentricity of sub-parsec massive black hole binaries surrounded by self-gravitating gas discs

Friday, April 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1104.3868

by Rödig, Constanze and Dotti, Massimo and Sesana, Alberto and Cuadra, Jorge and Colpi, Monica
10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Cosmic Train Wreck by Massive Black Holes: Discovery of a kpc-Scale Triple Active Galactic Nucleus

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

arXiv:1104.3391

by Liu, Xin and Shen, Yue and Strauss, Michael A.
ApJL submitted

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Evolution of the spin parameter of accreting compact objects with non-Kerr quadrupole moment

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5135

by Bambi, Cosimo
20 pages, 16 figures

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Efficient Merger of Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1103.0272

by Khan, Fazeel and Just, Andreas and Merritt, David
9 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.4855

by Preto, Miguel and Berentzen, Ingo and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Submitted to ApJL

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Growing Massive Black Holes in a Local Group Environment: the Central Supermassive, Slowly Sinking, and Ejected Populations

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0327

by Micic, Miroslav and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Sigurdsson, Steinn
25 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Constraining the dark energy equation of state using LISA observations of spinning Massive Black Hole binaries

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0769

by Petiteau, Antoine and Babak, Stanislav and Sesana, Alberto
12 pages, 8 figures, revised version to address referee’s comments, submitted to ApJ

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Initial data transients in binary black hole evolutions

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1101.5492

by Bishop, Nigel and Pollney, Denis and Reisswig, Christian
18 pages, 4 figures

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Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysical Environments

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

arXiv:1101.4684

by Bode, Tanja and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Haas, Roland and Healy, James and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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Cosmic Lighthouses : Unveiling the nature of high-redshift galaxies

Friday, January 21st, 2011

arXiv:1101.3925

by Dayal, Pratika
PhD Thesis

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Measuring parameters of massive black hole binaries with partially aligned spins

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

arXiv:1101.3591

by Lang, Ryan N. and Hughes, Scott A. and Cornish, Neil J.
19 pages, 16 figures, submitted to PRD

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Tidal stellar disruptions by massive black hole pairs: II. Decaying binaries

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.4466

by Chen, Xian and Sesana, Alberto and Madau, Piero and Liu, Fukun
16 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Black-hole binaries go to eleven orbits

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.3173

by Sperhake, Ulrich and Bruegmann, Bernd and Mueller, Doreen and Sopuerta, Carlos F.
Submitted to CQG, Special Edition for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, 13 pages, 7 figures

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The Status of Black-Hole Binary Merger Simulations with Numerical Relativity

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.2872

by McWilliams, Sean T.
Invited review for NRDA/CAPRA 2010, CQG special issue – 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

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Reducing orbital eccentricity in quasi-circular binary black-hole evolutions in presence of spins

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.1549

by Buonanno, Alessandra and Kidder, Lawrence E. and Mroué, Abdul H. and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Taracchini, Andrea
17 pages, 11 figures

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Phenomenological gravitational waveforms from spinning coalescing binaries

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.5172

by Sturani, R. and Fischetti, S. and Cadonati, L. and Guidi, G. M. and Healy, J. and Shoemaker, D. and Vicere’, A.
8 pages, 2 figures. Proceeding of the NRDA-CAPRA 2010 conference

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Multiple Tidal Disruptions as an Indicator of Binary Super-Massive Black Hole Systems

Monday, November 29th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5874

by Wegg, Christopher and Bode, J. Nate
5 pages, 3 figures

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Type 2 Active Galactic Nuclei with Double-Peaked [OIII] Lines. II. Resulting More from Narrow-Line Region Kinematics than from Merging Supermassive Black Hole Pairs

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5246

by Shen, Yue and Liu, Xin and Greene, Jenny and Strauss, Michael
62 pages with many figures; color print preferred; some figures not included due to size limit; the complete and high-resolution version can be downloaded at https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~yshen/papers/double_o3_paper2.pdf

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Color Behavior Of BL Lacertae Object OJ 287 During Optical Outburst

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

arXiv:1011.4989

by Dai, Yan and Wu, Jianghua and Zhu, Zong-Hong and Zhou, Xu and Ma, Jun
25 pages, 13 figures

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The coordinated key role of wet, mixed, and dry major mergers in the buildup of massive early-type galaxies at z<~1

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.3523

by Eliche-Moral, M. Carmen and Prieto, Mercedes and Gallego, Jesus and Zamorano, Jaime
3 figures, 6 pages, in “Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI”, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on September 13-17 2010, in Madrid (Spain), eds. M. R. Zapatero Osorio, A. Gil de Paz, J. Maiz Apellaniz, J.R. Pardo, and J. Gorgas

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Fast variability of gamma-ray emission from supermassive black hole binary OJ 287

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.4020

by Neronov, Andrii and Vovk, Ievgen
Accepted to MNRAS, 6 pages, 5 figures

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Perturbative effects of spinning black holes with applications to recoil velocities

Monday, November 15th, 2010

arXiv:1011.2767

by Nakano, Hiroyuki and Campanelli, Manuela and Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
Proceedings of Theory Meets Data Analysis at Comparable and Extreme Mass Ratios (NRDA/Capra 2010), Perimeter Institute, June 2010 – 12 pages

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A Very Close Binary Black Hole in a Giant Elliptical Galaxy 3C 66B and its Black Hole Merger

Friday, November 12th, 2010

arXiv:1011.2647

by Iguchi, Satoru and Okuda, Takeshi and Sudou, Hiroshi
5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Modeling maximum astrophysical gravitational recoil velocities

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1011.0593

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef
8 pages, 7 figures, revtex4

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Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

arXiv:1010.5260

by Centrella, Joan M. and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J. and van Meter, James R.
53 pages, 42 figures. Review article submitted to Reviews of Modern Physics

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Electromagnetic Counterparts to Black Hole Mergers

Monday, October 18th, 2010

arXiv:1010.3250

by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. special issue: proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium

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Simulating merging binary black holes with nearly extremal spins

Friday, October 15th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2777

by Lovelace, Geoffrey and Scheel, Mark. A. and Szilagyi, Bela
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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Properties of Accretion Flows Around Coalescing Supermassive Black Holes

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2496

by Bogdanovic, Tamara and Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre
15 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Class. Quantum Grav. for proceedings of 8th LISA Symposium

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The Final Merger of Black-Hole Binaries

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.2165

by Centrella, Joan M. and Baker, John G. and Kelly, Bernard J. and van Meter, James R.
56 pages; 9 figures. Review article in press with Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Physics, vol. 60

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Accuracy and effectualness of closed-form, frequency-domain waveforms for non-spinning black hole binaries

Friday, October 1st, 2010

arXiv:1009.5998

by Damour, T. and Trias, M. and Nagar, A.
29 pages, 7 figures, 1 table

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