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Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by General Relativistic Dynamical and Polarized Radiative Modeling

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4832

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Penna, Robert F. and McKinney, Jonathan C.
17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ

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VLT Kinematics for omega Centauri: Further Support for a Central Black Hole

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4559

by 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

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An expanded M_bh-sigma diagram, and a new calibration of active galactic nuclei masses

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1007.3834

by Graham, Alister W. and Onken, Christopher A. and Athanassoula, E. and Combes, Francoise
17 pages. Submitted to MNRAS on July 19

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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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Precise Black Hole Masses From Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2851

by 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

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Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3561

by 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

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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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The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster in the Center of the Milky Way

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0064

by Genzel, Reinhard and Eisenhauer, Frank and Gillessen, Stefan
submitted to Rev.Mod.Phys.,comments are welcome

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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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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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A correlation between central supermassive black holes and the globular cluster systems of early-type galaxies

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.0137

by Burkert, Andreas and Tremaine, Scott
13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Radio observations of NGC 6388: an upper limit on the mass of its central black hole

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4604

by 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

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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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The Underluminous Nature of Sgr A*

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

arXiv:1003.1519

by 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

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The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

arXiv:1003.0680

by 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

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A mass estimate of an intermediate-mass black hole in omega Centauri

Monday, March 1st, 2010

arXiv:1002.5037

by Miocchi, P.
LateX, 5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Chandra and Swift Follow-up Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole in ESO243-49

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1002.3625

by 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

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Further Observations of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1

Friday, February 19th, 2010

arXiv:1002.3404

by 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

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Flares from Sgr A* and their emission mechanism

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2885

by 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

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HST Palpha Survey of the Galactic Center — Searching the missing young stellar populations within the Galactic Center

Monday, February 15th, 2010

arXiv:1002.2611

by 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

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The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1705

by Batcheldor, D.
ApJ Letters, accepted

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The SMBH mass versus M_G sigma^2 relation: A comparison between real data and numerical models

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1703

by 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

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Numerical Models of Sgr A*

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1261

by 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

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The Supermassive Black Hole at the Heart of Centaurus A: Revealed by Gas- and Stellar Kinematics

Friday, February 5th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0965

by Neumayer, Nadine
8 pages, accepted for publication in PASA, contribution for “The Many Faces of Centaurus A” conference in Sydney, 2009

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Stellar disc — dynamical evolution in a perturbed potential

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

arXiv:1002.0718

by Subr, Ladislav
“The Galactic Center: A Window on the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan

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Dynamical Models of the Galactic Center

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5435

by 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

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Composition of the galactic center star cluster

Monday, February 1st, 2010

arXiv:1001.5381

by 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

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The Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster in Context

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4238

by 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

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Massive Young Stars in the Galactic Center

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

arXiv:1001.4232

by Bartko, H.
Proceedings of the Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai

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Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

arXiv:1001.3675

by 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”

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