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
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
The
last GW Note is by Jonathan Thornburg
Archive for the ‘observations’ Category
Clearing Out a Galaxy
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Zubovas, Kastytis and King, Andrew R.
6 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Masses of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes with Very-Long Baseline Interferometry
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Johannsen, Tim and Psaltis, Dimitrios and Gillessen, Stefan and Marrone, Daniel P. and Ozel, Feryal and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Fish, Vincent L.
7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted to ApJ
Physics of the Galactic Center Cloud G2, on its Way towards the Super-Massive Black Hole
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Burkert, Andreas and Schartmann, Mark and Alig, Christian and Gillessen, Stefan and Genzel, Reinhard and Fritz, Tobias and Eisenhauer, Frank
22 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Non-Thermal Insights on Mass and Energy Flows Through the Galactic Centre and into the Fermi Bubbles
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Erratic 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
M94 As A Unique Testbed for Black Hole Mass Estimates and AGN Activity At Low Luminosities
Monday, December 19th, 2011by Constantin, Anca and Seth, Anil
11 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
A gas cloud on its way towards the super-massive black hole in the Galactic Centre
Thursday, December 15th, 2011by Gillessen, S. and Genzel, R. and Fritz, T. K. and Quataert, E. and Alig, C. and Burkert, A. and Cuadra, J. and Eisenhauer, F. and Pfuhl, O. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Gammie, C. F. and Ott, T.
in press at Nature
Do Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes Follow the Same Host-Galaxy Correlations?
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Erwin, Peter and Gadotti, Dimitri
pdflatex, 10 pages, 4 figures. Invited paper for Advances in Astronomy special issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The Cluster of Blue Stars Surrounding the M31 Nuclear Black Hole
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Lauer, Tod R. and Bender, Ralf and Kormendy, John and Rosenfield, Philip and Green, Richard F.
29 pages, 11 figures (3 color); Astrophysical Journal accepted
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
Surviving the hole I: Spatially resolved chemistry around Sgr A*
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Martín, S. and Martín-Pintado, J. and Montero-Castaño, M. and Ho, P. T. P. and Blundell, R.
12 pages, 22 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Constraining Dynamical Dark Energy Models through the Abundance of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes
Thursday, November 17th, 2011by Lamastra, Alessandra and Menci, Nicola and Fiore, Fabrizio and Di Porto, Cinzia and Amendola, Luca
19 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS
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
Accurate Black Hole Mass Measurements for Thermal AGNs and the Origin of the Correlations Between Black Hole Mass and Bulge Properties
Thursday, November 10th, 2011by Gaskell, C. Martin
SF2A-2011: Proceedings of the 2011 annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics. G. Alecian, K. Belkacem, S. Collin, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud (eds), p. 573. 6 pages, 4 figures
The scaling relation between the mass of supermassive black holes and the kinetic energy of random motions of the host galaxies
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Mancini, Luigi and Feoli, Antonio
11 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
A Young Massive Stellar Population Around the Intermediate Mass Black Hole ESO 243-49 HLX-1
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Farrell, S. and Servillat, M. and Pforr, J. and Maccarone, T. and Knigge, C. and Godet, O. and Maraston, C. and Webb, N. and Barret, D. and Gosling, A. and Belmont, R. and Wiersema, K.
10 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJL
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
Polarimetric Imaging of Sgr A* in its Flaring State
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Melia, Fulvio and Falanga, Maurizio and Goldwurm, Andrea
Accepted for Publication in MNRAS, September 26, 2011
The low-mass end of the Mbh/Mhost relation in quasars
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Decarli, Roberto and Falomo, Renato and Kotilainen, Jari K. and Hyvonen, Tomi and Uslenghi, Michela and Treves, Aldo
Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy. To appear in the special issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
HST Observations of the Stellar Distribution Near Sgr A*
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Bushouse, H. and Wardle, M.
16 pages, 7 figures, ApJ, in press
New Evidence for High Activity of the Super-Massive Black Hole in our Galaxy
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Nobukawa, Masayoshi and Ryu, Syukyo G. and Tsuru, Takeshi Go and Koyama, Katsuji
4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Accretion Onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the High-redshift Radio-loud AGN 0957+561
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Gil-Merino, Rodrigo and Goicoechea, Luis J. and Shalyapin, Vyacheslav N. and Braga, Vittorio F.
21 pages, 7 text pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal
Faint high-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Field South: the evolution of the AGN luminosity function and black hole demography
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Fiore, F. and Puccetti, S. and Grazian, A. and Menci, N. and Shankar, F. and Santini, P. and Piconcelli, E. and Koekemoer, A. M. and Fontana, A. and Boutsia, K. and Castellano, M. and Lamastra, A. and Malacaria, C. and Feruglio, C. and Mathur, S. and Miller, N. and Pannella, M.
A&A in press
Selection effects in the black hole-bulge relation and its evolution
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Schulze, Andreas and Wisotzki, Lutz
20 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
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
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
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