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Archive for the ‘massive binaries of black holes’ Category

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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On the transition from nuclear-cluster to black-hole dominated galaxy cores

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.3627

by Bekki, Kenji and Graham, Alister W.
15 page, 5 figures, accepted in ApJL

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Cosmology with Standard Sirens: the Importance of the Shape of the Lensing Magnification Distribution

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.3562

by Shang, Cien and Haiman, Zoltan
16 pages, 9 tables, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Parsec-Scale Localization of the Quasar SDSS J1536+0441A, a Candidate Binary Black Hole System

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.0146

by Wrobel, J. M. and Laor, A.
6 pages; 2 figures; emulateapj.cls; to appear in ApJL

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Relativistic Suppression of Black Hole Recoils

Monday, March 29th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4993

by Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich and Berti, Emanuele
7 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL

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Symplectic Integration of Post-Newtonian Equations of Motion with Spin

Monday, March 29th, 2010

arXiv:1003.5122

by Lubich, Christian and Walther, Benny and Bruegmann, Bernd
9 pages, 6 figures

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Dynamical shift condition for unequal mass black hole binaries

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4681

by Mueller, Doreen and Grigsby, Jason and Bruegmann, Bernd
10 pages, 14 figures

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A General Formula for Black Hole Gravitational Wave Kicks

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1003.3865

by van Meter, James R. and Miller, M. Coleman and Baker, John G. and Boggs, William D. and Kelly, Bernard J.
14 pages.

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Discovery of Four kpc-Scale Binary AGNs

Friday, March 19th, 2010

arXiv:1003.3467

by Liu, Xin and Greene, Jenny E. and Shen, Yue and Strauss, Michael A.
Submitted to ApJL, Mar 10, 2010

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Eccentric orbital motion of compact binaries with aligned spins and angular momentum under higher order spin coupling

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

arXiv:1003.2735

by Tessmer, Manuel and Hartung, Johannes and Schaefer, Gerhard
26 pages, 1 figure

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Understanding the “anti-kick” in the merger of binary black holes

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0873

by Rezzolla, Luciano and Macedo, Rodrigo P. and Jaramillo, José Luis
4 pages

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Semianalytical estimates of scattering thresholds and gravitational radiation in ultrarelativistic black hole encounters

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0812

by Berti, Emanuele and Cardoso, Vitor and Hinderer, Tanja and Lemos, Madalena and Pretorius, Frans and Sperhake, Ulrich and Yunes, Nicolas
29 pages, 19 figure, 6 tables

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Binary spinning black hole Hamiltonian in canonical center-of-mass and rest-frame coordinates through higher post-Newtonian order

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1003.0390

by Rothe, Tilman J. and Schäfer, Gerhard
18 pages, no figures

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EM counterparts of recoiling black holes: general relativistic simulations of non-Keplerian discs

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.4185

by Zanotti, Olindo and Rezzolla, Luciano and Del Zanna, Luca and Palenzuela, Carlos
17 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS, movies available at http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/Visualisations/Archive/BinaryBlackHoles/EMCounterparts/EMCounterparts.html

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Gravitational Wave Signal from Assembling the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes

Friday, February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3378

by Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Micic, Miroslav and Sigurdsson, Steinn and Rubbo, Louis
18 pages, 10 figures, accepted in the Astrophysical Journal

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Final spins from the merger of precessing binary black holes

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2643

by Kesden, Michael and Sperhake, Ulrich and Berti, Emanuele
20 pages, 16 figures, revtex

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Growing Massive Black Hole Pairs in Minor Mergers of Disk Galaxies

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1712

by Callegari, S. and Kazantzidis, S. and Mayer, L. and Colpi, M. and Bellovary, J. M. and Quinn, T. and Wadsley, J.
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Massive black holes lurking in Milky Way satellites

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5451

by Van Wassenhove, S. and Volonteri, M. and Walker, M. G. and Gair, J. R.
Submitted to MNRAS on November 30, 2009

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The search for spinning black hole binaries in mock LISA data using a genetic algorithm

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5380

by Petiteau, Antoine and Shang, Yu and Babak, Stanislav and Feroz, Farhan
25 pages, 9 figures

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The Current Status of Binary Black Hole Simulations in Numerical Relativity

Friday, January 29th, 2010

arXiv:1001.5161

by Hinder, Ian
14 pages; submitted to the Classical and Quantum Gravity special issue for NRDA2009

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Advances in Simulations of Generic Black-Hole Binaries

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3834

by Campanelli, Manuela and Lousto, Carlos O. and Mundim, Bruno C. and Nakano, Hiroyuki and Zlochower, Yosef and Bischof, Hans-Peter
12 pages, 5 figures, Prepared for 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi8)

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Mass function of binary massive black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

arXiv:1001.3612

by Hayasaki, Kimitake and Ueda, Yoshihiro and Isobe, Naoki
9 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

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