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The Nature of Hypervelocity Stars and the Time Between Their Formation and Ejection
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012by Brown, Warren R. and Cohen, Judith G. and Geller, Margaret J. and Kenyon, Scott J.
6 pages, accepted to ApJ Letters
The Tidal Disruption of Giant Stars and Their Contribution to the Flaring Supermassive Black Hole Population
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012by MacLeod, Morgan and Guillochon, James and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
18 pages, 18 figures, submitted to ApJ
Two in one? A possible dual radio-emitting nucleus in the quasar SDSS J1425+3231
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Frey, S. and Paragi, Z. and An, T. and Gabanyi, K. E.
7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Constraints on the Nature of CID-42: Recoil Kick or Supermassive Black Hole Pair?
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Blecha, Laura and Civano, Francesca and Elvis, Martin and Loeb, Abraham
10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. Replaced version has corrected reference to Civano et al. (2012)
The Discovery of an X-ray/UV Stellar Flare from the Late-K/Early-M Dwarf LMC 335
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Tsang, B. T. H. and Pun, J. C. S. and Di Stefano, R. and Li, K. L. and Kong, A. K. H.
35 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
A New Sample of Candidate Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Selected by X-ray Variability
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Kamizasa, Naoya and Terashima, Yuichi and Awaki, Hisamitsu
To Appear in ApJ, 14 pages, 5 figures
The dynamics, appearance and demographics of relativistic jets triggered by tidal disruption of stars in quiescent supermassive black holes
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by De Colle, Fabio and Guillochon, James and Naiman, Jill and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico
16 pages, 16 figures, submitted to ApJ
An ultraviolet-optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Gezari, S. and Chornock, R. and Rest, A. and Huber, M. E. and Forster, K. and Berger, E. and Challis, P. J. and Neill, J. D. and Martin, D. C. and Heckman, T. and Lawrence, A. and Norman, C. and Narayan, G. and Foley, R. J. and Marion, G. H. and Scolnic, D. and Chomiuk, L. and Soderberg, A. and Smith, K. and Kirshner, R. P. and Riess, A. G. and Smartt, S. J. and Stubbs, C. W. and Tonry, J. L. and Wood-Vasey, W. M. and Burgett, W. S. and Chambers, K. C. and Grav, T. and Heasley, J. N. and Kaiser, N. and Kudritzki, R. -P. and Magnier, E. A. and Morgan, J. S. and Price, P. A.
To appear in Nature on May 10, 2012
On the determination of the spin of the black hole in Cyg X-1 from X-ray reflection spectra
Friday, April 27th, 2012by Fabian, A. C. and Wilkins, D. R. and Miller, J. M. and Reis, R. C. and Reynolds, C. S. and Cackett, E. M. and Nowak, M. A. and Pooley, G. G. and Pottschmidt, K. and Sanders, J. S. and Ross, R. R. and Wilms, J.
7 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS in press
On the hunt for ultramassive black holes in brightest cluster galaxies
Friday, April 27th, 2012by Hlavacek-Larrondo, J. and Fabian, A. C. and Edge, A. C. and Hogan, M. T.
9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Monte Carlo Markov Chain based investigation of black hole spin in the active galaxy NGC3783
Friday, April 27th, 2012by Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W. and Lohfink, A. M. and Trippe, M. L. and Miller, J. M. and Fabian, A. C. and Nowak, M. A.
Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
No evidence for a central IMBH in M15
Monday, April 23rd, 2012by Kirsten, F. and Vlemmings, W. H. T.
6 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Tilted black hole accretion disc models of Sagittarius A*: time-variable millimetre to near-infrared emission
Monday, April 23rd, 2012by Dexter, Jason and Fragile, P. Chris
17 pages, 18 figures, submitted to MNRAS; for movies and version with high-res figures see http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jdexter/tiltedsgra
On the Link Between Central Black Holes, Bar Dynamics, and Dark Matter Halos in Spiral Galaxies
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Treuthardt, Patrick and Seigar, Marc S. and Sierra, Amber D. and Al-Baidhany, Ismaeel and Salo, Heikki and Kennefick, Daniel and Kennefick, Julia and Lacy, Claud H. S.
17 pages, 1 table, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Central kinematics of the globular cluster NGC 2808: Upper limit on the mass of an intermediate-mass black hole
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Lützgendorf, Nora and Kissler-Patig, Markus and Gebhardt, Karl and Baumgardt, Holger and Noyola, Eva and Jalali, Behrang and de Zeeuw, P. Tim and Neumayer, Nadine
12 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in A&A
The Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Center of NGC 404: New Evidence from Radio Continuum Observations
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Nyland, Kristina and Marvil, Josh and Wrobel, Joan and Young, Lisa and Zauderer, B. Ashley
Accepted for publication to ApJ
The hidden AGN main sequence: Evidence for a universal SMBH accretion to star formation rate ratio since z~2 producing a M_BH-M* relation
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Mullaney, J. R. and Daddi, E. and Béthermin, M. and Elbaz, D. and Juneau, S. and Pannella, M. and Sargent, M. T. and Alexander, D. M. and Hickox, R. C.
6 Pages, 3 Figures, Submitted to ApJL
BLR kinematics and Black Hole Mass in Markarian 6
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Doroshenko, V. T. and Sergeev, S. G. and Klimanov, S. A. and Pronik, V. I. and Efimov, Yu. S.
17 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Binary Disruption by Massive Black Holes: Hypervelocity Stars, S Stars, and Tidal Disruption Events
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. and Geller, Margaret J. and Brown, Warren R.
ApJ Letters, accepted; 13 pages, including 3 figures
No Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Strong Constraints from the JVLA
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Strader, Jay and Chomiuk, Laura and Maccarone, Thomas and Miller-Jones, James and Seth, Anil and Heinke, Craig and Sivakoff, Gregory
6 pages, 2 figures. ApJL in press
The most extreme ultraluminous X-ray sources: evidence for intermediate-mass black holes?
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Sutton, Andrew D. and Roberts, Timothy P. and Walton, Dominic J. and Gladstone, Jeanette C. and Scott, Amy E.
Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 26 pages, 9 figures, 10 tables
The observed $M – \sigma$ relations imply that SMBHs grow by cold chaotic accretion
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Nayakshin, Sergei and Power, Chris and King, Andrew R.
8 pages; submitted to ApJ; version that takes referee’s comments into account
The S-Star Cluster at the Center of the Milky Way: On the nature of diffuse NIR emission in the inner tenth of a parsec
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Sabha, Nadeen and Eckart, Andreas and Merritt, David and Zamaninasab, Mohammad and Witzel, Gunther and García-Marín, Macarena and Jalali, Behrang and Valencia-S., Monica and Yazici, Senol and Buchholz, Rainer and Shahzamanian, Banafsheh and Straubmeier, Christian
13 pages, 11 figures, submitted to A&A
Modelling the black hole silhouette in Sgr A* with ion tori
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Straub, Odele and Vincent, Frederic H. and Abramowicz, Marek A. and Gourgoulhon, Eric and Paumard, Thibaut
11 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A & A
A tidal disruption-like X-ray flare from the quiescent galaxy SDSS J120136.02+300305.5
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012by Saxton, R. D. and Read, A. M. and Esquej, P. and Komossa, S. and Dougherty, S. and Rodriguez-Pascual, P. and Barrado, D.
Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 11 pages, 11 figures
A star disrupted by a stellar black hole as the origin of the cloud falling towards the Galactic center
Monday, February 27th, 2012A Chandra Survey of Supermassive Black Holes with Dynamical Mass Measurements
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Gultekin, Kayhan and Cackett, Edward M. and Miller, Jon M. and Di Matteo, Tiziana and Markoff, Sera and Richstone, Douglas O.
Accepted by ApJ. 16 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables
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
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