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Archive for the ‘massive binaries of black holes’ Category

Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M-sigma Relation

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

arXiv:1009.4940

by Blecha, Laura and Cox, Thomas J. and Loeb, Abraham and Hernquist, Lars
29 pages, 18 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Relativistic encounters of more than two black holes

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

arXiv:1009.1870

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Freitag, Marc Dewi
A small note of 5 pages, submitted to MNRAS letts

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Dynamical friction of massive objects in galactic centres

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

arXiv:1009.2455

by Just, A. and Khan, F. M. and Berczik, P. and Ernst, A. and Spurzem, R.
22 pages, 28 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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Inspiral of Generic Black Hole Binaries: Spin, Precession, and Eccentricity

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

arXiv:1009.2533

by Levin, Janna and Contreras, Hugo

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Hierarchical Assembly of Supermassive Black Holes: Adaptive Optics Imaging of Double-Peaked [O III] Active Galactic Nuclei

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

arXiv:1009.0767

by Fu, Hai and Myers, Adam D. and Djorgovski, S. G. and Yan, Lin
Submitted to ApJL. emulateapj style, 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. For high-resolution images see http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~fu/hires/bbh_nirc2_f1.pdf

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Constraining the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with LISA Observations II: Direct comparison of detailed models

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

arXiv:1009.0765

by Plowman, Joseph E. and Hellings, Ronald W. and Tsuruta, Sachiko
32 pages, 21 Figures, 6 Tables; Submitted to MNRAS

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Radiatively inefficient accretion flows induced by gravitational-wave emission before massive black hole coalescence

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0157

by Hayasaki, Kimitake
12 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL

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A Radio Census of Binary Supermassive Black Holes

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4382

by Burke-Spolaor, Sarah
11 Pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Intermediate-mass-ratio black hole binaries: intertwining numerical and perturbative techniques

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4360

by Lousto, Carlos O. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Campanelli, Manuela
31 pages, 33 figures revtex 4

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Length requirements for numerical-relativity waveforms

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2961

by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Ajith, P.
13 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables

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Variability and stability in optical blazar jets: the case of OJ287

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3082

by Villforth, C. and Nilsson, K. and Heidt, J. and Pursimo, T.
To appear in the proceedings of the meeting “Steady and Transient Jets”, held in Bonn, Germany (7-8 April 2010)

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Dynamical damping terms for symmetry-seeking shift conditions

Monday, August 16th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2212

by Alic, Daniela and Rezzolla, Luciano and Hinder, Ian and Mösta, Philipp
11 pages, 8 figures

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Study of multi black hole and ring singularity apparent horizons

Friday, August 13th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2001

by Jaramillo, Gabriela and Lousto, Carlos O.
31 pages, 21 figures

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Massive Black Hole Binary Systems in Hierarchical Scenario of Structure Formation

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1008.0399

by Pereira, Eduardo S. and Miranda, Oswaldo D.

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Black-hole binaries with non-precessing spins

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4789

by Hannam, Mark and Husa, Sascha and Ohme, Frank and Mueller, Doreen and Bruegmann, Bernd
20 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables

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The peculiar optical spectrum of 4C+22.25: Imprint of a massive black hole binary?

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1007.3738

by Decarli, Roberto and Dotti, Massimo and Montuori, Carmen and Liimets, Tiina and Ederoclite, Alessandro
2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

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High-Accuracy Comparison between the Post-Newtonian and Self-Force Dynamics of Black-Hole Binaries

Friday, July 16th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2614

by Blanchet, Luc and Detweiler, Steven and Tiec, Alexandre Le and Whiting, Bernard F.
29 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the book “Mass and Motion in General Relativity”, proceedings of the C.N.R.S. School in Orleans, France, eds. L. Blanchet, A. Spallicci and B. F. Whiting

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Characterizing Spinning Black Hole Binaries in Eccentric Orbits with LISA

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3759

by Key, Joey Shapiro and Cornish, Neil J.
11 pages, 19 figures

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Full-analytic frequency-domain 1pN-accurate gravitational wave forms from eccentric compact binaries

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3714

by Tessmer, Manuel and Schaefer, Gerhard
28 pages

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Papaloizou-Pringle Instability of Magnetized Accretion Tori

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3824

by Fu, Wen and Lai, Dong
15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Spectropolarimetric evidence for a kicked supermassive black hole in the Quasar E1821+643

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0993

by Robinson, Andrew and Young, Stuart and Axon, David J. and Kharb, Preeti and Smith, James E.
18 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal as a Letter

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Self consistent model for the evolution of eccentric massive black hole binaries in stellar environments: implications for gravitational wave observations

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0730

by Sesana, A.
15 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5560

by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo

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The Lagrange Equilibrium Points L_4 and L_5 in a Black Hole Binary System

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0182

by Schnittman, Jeremy D.
10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ; comments welcome

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Next to leading order spin-orbit effects in the motion of inspiralling compact binaries

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5730

by Porto, Rafael A.
25 pages, 4 figures, revtex4

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Supermassive black hole spin-flip during the inspiral

Monday, May 17th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2287

by Gergely, László Á. and Biermann, Peter L. and Caramete, Laurenţiu I.
11 pages, 2 figures

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A Displaced Supermassive Black Hole in M87

Monday, May 17th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2173

by Batcheldor, D. and Robinson, A. and Axon, D. J. and Perlman, E. S. and Merritt, D.
ApJ Letters accepted

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Spin effects in the phasing of gravitational waves from binaries on eccentric orbits

Monday, May 17th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2046

by Klein, Antoine and Jetzer, Philippe
7 pages, 1 figure; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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Witnessing the Birth of a Quasar

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1004.5411

by Tanaka, Takamitsu and Haiman, Zoltan and Menou, Kristen
27 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Computing waveforms for spinning compact binaries in quasi-eccentric orbits

Friday, April 30th, 2010

arXiv:1004.5322

by Cornish, Neil J. and Key, Joey Shapiro
9 pages

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