Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by General Relativistic Dynamical and Polarized Radiative Modeling
Thursday, July 29th, 2010by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Penna, Robert F. and McKinney, Jonathan C.
17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
The last GW Note is by Miguel Preto
Archive for the ‘observations’ Category
VLT Kinematics for omega Centauri: Further Support for a Central Black Hole
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010by Noyola, Eva and Gebhardt, Karl and Kissler-Patig, Markus and Lutzgendorf, Nora and Jalali, Behrang and de Zeeuw, P. Tim and Baumgardt, Holger
5 pages, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
An expanded M_bh-sigma diagram, and a new calibration of active galactic nuclei masses
Friday, July 23rd, 2010by Graham, Alister W. and Onken, Christopher A. and Athanassoula, E. and Combes, Francoise
17 pages. Submitted to MNRAS on July 19
The peculiar optical spectrum of 4C+22.25: Imprint of a massive black hole binary?
Friday, July 23rd, 2010by Decarli, Roberto and Dotti, Massimo and Montuori, Carmen and Liimets, Tiina and Ederoclite, Alessandro
2 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Precise Black Hole Masses From Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010by Greene, J. E. and Peng, C. Y. and Kim, M. and Kuo, C. Y. and Braatz, J. A. and Impellizzeri, C. M. V. and Condon, J. J. and Lo, K. Y. and Henkel, C. and Reid, M. J.
21 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010by Kelly, Brandon C. and Vestergaard, Marianne and Fan, Xiaohui and Hopkins, Philip and Hernquist, Lars and Siemiginowska, Aneta
Accepted by ApJ, 25 pages (emulateapj), 11 figures
Spectropolarimetric evidence for a kicked supermassive black hole in the Quasar E1821+643
Friday, June 18th, 2010by 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
The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster in the Center of the Milky Way
Friday, June 4th, 2010by Genzel, Reinhard and Eisenhauer, Frank and Gillessen, Stefan
submitted to Rev.Mod.Phys.,comments are welcome
A Displaced Supermassive Black Hole in M87
Monday, May 17th, 2010by Batcheldor, D. and Robinson, A. and Axon, D. J. and Perlman, E. S. and Merritt, D.
ApJ Letters accepted
Parsec-Scale Localization of the Quasar SDSS J1536+0441A, a Candidate Binary Black Hole System
Friday, April 2nd, 2010by Wrobel, J. M. and Laor, A.
6 pages; 2 figures; emulateapj.cls; to appear in ApJL
A correlation between central supermassive black holes and the globular cluster systems of early-type galaxies
Friday, April 2nd, 2010by Burkert, Andreas and Tremaine, Scott
13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ
Radio observations of NGC 6388: an upper limit on the mass of its central black hole
Thursday, March 25th, 2010by Cseh, D. and Kaaret, P. and Corbel, S. and Kording, E. and Coriat, M. and Tzioumis, A. and Lanzoni, B.
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Discovery of Four kpc-Scale Binary AGNs
Friday, March 19th, 2010by Liu, Xin and Greene, Jenny E. and Shen, Yue and Strauss, Michael A.
Submitted to ApJL, Mar 10, 2010
The Underluminous Nature of Sgr A*
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Wardle, M.
4 pages, To appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini
The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole
Thursday, March 4th, 2010by Seth, Anil C. and Cappellari, Michele and Neumayer, Nadine and Caldwell, Nelson and Bastian, Nate and Olsen, Knut and Blum, Robert D. and Debattista, Victor P. and McDermid, Richard and Puzia, Thomas and Stephens, Andrew
To appear in ApJ. 21 pages, 19 figures, higher resolution PDF available at: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~aseth/ngc404paper.pdf
A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri
Monday, March 1st, 2010by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics
Chandra and Swift Follow-up Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in ESO243-49
Monday, February 22nd, 2010by Webb, N. A. and Barret, D. and Godet, O. and Servillat, M. and Farrell, S. A. and Oates, S. R.
10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL on 12/02/2010
Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1
Friday, February 19th, 2010by Farrell, S. A. and Servillat, M. and Oates, S. R. and Heywood, I. and Godet, O. and Webb, N. A. and Barret, D.
4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted 11th of Feb 2010. Contributed talk to appear in Proceedings of “X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives”, Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini
Flares from Sgr A* and their emission mechanism
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010by Dodds-Eden, K. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Quataert, E. and Gillessen, S. and Grosso, N. and Genzel, R. and Goldwurm, A. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Trippe, S. and Bartko, H. and Eisenhauer, F. and Ott, T. and Fritz, T. K. and Pfuhl, O.
Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai
HST Palpha Survey of the Galactic Center — Searching the missing young stellar populations within the Galactic Center
Monday, February 15th, 2010by Dong, H. and Wang, Q. D. and Cotera, A. and Stolovy, S. and Morris, M. R. and Mauerhan, J. and Mills, E. A. and Schneider, G. and Lang, C.
10 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai
The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments
Thursday, February 11th, 2010The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models
Thursday, February 11th, 2010by Feoli, A. and Mancini, L. and Marulli, F. and Bergh, S. van den
16 pages, 5 figures, to be published in a special issue of General Relativity and Gravitation
Numerical Models of Sgr A*
Monday, February 8th, 2010by Moscibrodzka, M. and Gammie, C. F. and Dolence, J. and Shiokawa, H. and Leung, P. K.
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Centaurus A: Revealed by Gas- and Stellar Kinematics
Friday, February 5th, 2010by Neumayer, Nadine
8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA, contribution for “The Many Faces of Centaurus A” conference in Sydney, 2009
Stellar disc — dynamical evolution in a perturbed potential
Thursday, February 4th, 2010by Subr, Ladislav
“The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Dynamical Models of the Galactic Center
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Merritt, David
To appear in “The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan
Composition of the galactic center star cluster
Monday, February 1st, 2010by Buchholz, R. M. and Schoedel, R. and Eckart, A.
Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series
The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster in Context
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010by Schoedel, Rainer
Proceedings article for the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai. The conference proceedings will be published in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series
Massive Young Stars in the Galactic Center
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses
Sunday, January 24th, 2010by Peterson, Bradley M.
10 pages, 2 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 267 “Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies”
