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1H0707-495 in 2011: An X-ray source within a gravitational radius of the event horizon

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

arXiv:1108.5988

by Fabian, A. C. and Zoghbi, A. and Wilkins, D. and Dwelly, T. and Uttley, P. and Schartel, N. and Miniutti, G. and Gallo, L. and Grupe, D. and Komossa, S. and Santos-Lleo, M.
9 pages, 19 figures, MNRAS in press

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Testing black hole no-hair theorem with OJ287

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

arXiv:1108.5861

by Valtonen, M. J. and Mikkola, S. and Lehto, H. J. and Gopakumar, A. and Hudec, R. and Polednikova, J.
14 pages, 14 figures

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Reverberation Mapping of the Intermediate Mass Nuclear Black Hole in SDSS J114008.71+030711.4

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4700

by Rafter, Stephen and Kaspi, Shai and Behar, Ehud and Kollatschny, Wolfram and Zetzl, Matthias
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 21 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables

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Testing Photometric Diagnostics for the Dynamical State and Possible IMBH presence in Globular Clusters

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4425

by Noyola, Eva and Baumgardt, Holger
Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Modelling variability in black hole binaries: linking simulations to observations

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.0789

by Ingram, Adam and Done, Chris
11 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

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A Scaling Relation Between Megamaser Disk Radius and Black Hole Mass in Active Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2175

by Wardle, Mark and Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad
Submitted to ApJ Letters

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Is there a black hole in NGC 4382?

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1808

by Gultekin, Kayhan and Richstone, Douglas O. and Gebhardt, Karl and Faber, S. M. and Lauer, Tod R. and Bender, Ralf and Kormendy, John and Pinkney, Jason
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ

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Supermassive Black Hole Growth in Starburst Galaxies over Cosmic Time: Constraints from the Deepest Chandra Fields

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3229

by Rafferty, D. A. and Brandt, W. N. and Alexander, D. M. and Xue, Y. Q. and Bauer, F. E. and Lehmer, B. D. and Luo, B. and Papovich, C.
25 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Black hole Spin in Sw J1644+57 and Sw J2058+05

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.3115

by Lei, Wei-Hua and Zhang, Bing
5 pages, 1 figures

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Coronal radiation of a cusp of spun-up stars and the X-ray luminosity of Sgr A*

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2778

by Sazonov, S. and Sunyaev, R. and Revnivtsev, M.
16 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Kinematic signature of an intermediate-mass black hole in the globular cluster NGC 6388

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4243

by Lützgendorf, N. and Kissler-Patig, M. and Noyola, E. and Jalali, B. and de Zeeuw, P. T. and Gebhardt, K. and Baumgardt, H.
12 pages, 12 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A

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Perturbed stellar motions around the rotating black hole in Sgr A* for a generic orientation of its spin axis

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2916

by Iorio, Lorenzo
LaTex2e, 21 pages, 4 tables, no figures

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Detection of jet precession in the active nucleus of M81

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

arXiv:1107.0704

by Marti-Vidal, I. and Marcaide, J. M. and Alberdi, A. and Perez-Torres, M. A. and Ros, E. and Guirado, J. C.
16 pages; 13 figures; 8 tables. Submitted to A&A

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The mean infrared emission of SagittariusA*

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

arXiv:1106.5690

by Schoedel, R. and Morris, M. R. and Muzic, K. and Alberdi, A. and Meyer, L. and Eckart, A. and Gezari, D. Y.
accepted for publication by Astronomy & Astrophysics on 20 June 2011

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Resolving the Bondi Accretion Flow toward the Supermassive Black Hole of NGC 3115 with Chandra

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.3069

by Wong, Ka-Wah and Irwin, Jimmy A. and Yukita, Mihoko and Million, Evan T. and Mathews, William G. and Bregman, Joel N.
5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

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A Large Systematic Search for Recoiling and Close Supermassive Binary Black Holes

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2952

by Eracleous, Michael and Boroson, Todd A. and Halpern, Jules P. and Liu, Jia
Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplements on 10 June 2011. Version with large figures and full object list at: http://www2.astro.psu.edu/users/mce/preprints/SBHB.pdf (5 MB)

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X-ray and Radio Constraints on the Mass of the Black Hole in Swift J164449.3+573451

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2502

by Miller, J. M. and Gultekin, K.
Submitted to ApJ Letters

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Chandra Discovery of a Binary AGN in Mrk 739

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2163

by Koss, Michael and Mushotzky, Richard and Treister, Ezequiel and Veilleux, Sylvain and Vasudevan, Ranjan and Miller, Neal and Sanders, D. B. and Schawinski, Kevin and Trippe, Margaret
9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Assessing black hole spin in deep Suzaku observations of Seyfert 1 AGN

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.2135

by Patrick, A. R. and Reeves, J. N. and Lobban, A. P. and Porquet, D. and Markowitz, A. G.
25 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Tidal disruptions of separated binaries in galactic nuclei

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1429

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Miller, M. Coleman and Kennedy, Gareth F.
Submitted to MNRAS

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Chandra Observations of a 1.9 kpc Separation Double X-ray Source in a Candidate Dual AGN Galaxy at z=0.16

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.0746

by Comerford, Julia M. and Pooley, David and Gerke, Brian F. and Madejski, Greg M.
6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL

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Observational selection effects and the M-sigma relation

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1079

by Gultekin, Kayhan and Tremaine, Scott and Loeb, Abraham and Richstone, Douglas O.
8 pages, ApJ accepted

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BH masses in NLS1: the role of the broad-line region geometry

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1075

by Decarli, R. and Dotti, M. and Haardt, F. and Zibetti, S.
Proceeding of the workshop: “Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and their place in the Universe”, April 04-06, 2011, Milan

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A systematic search for massive black hole binaries in SDSS spectroscopic sample

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1180

by Tsalmantza, P. and Decarli, R. and Dotti, M. and Hogg, David W.
10 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Swift J1644+57: A White Dwarf Tidally Disrupted by a 10^4 M_{odot} Black Hole?

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

arXiv:1106.0923

by Krolik, Julian H. and Piran, Tsvi

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Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Sgr A*

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

arXiv:1105.5645

by Johannsen, Tim
8 pages, 7 figures, invited review for Advances in Astronomy, Special Issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”

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Mass of the black hole in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy H 0507+164 from reverberation mapping

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

arXiv:1105.1677

by Stalin, C. S. and Jeyakumar, S. and Coziol, R. and Pawase, R. S. and Thakur, S. S.
7 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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The spatial and velocity distributions of hypervelocity stars

Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

arXiv:1105.1432

by Zhang, Fupeng and Lu, Youjun and Yu, Qingjuan
19 pages, 16 figures

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Discovery of the Onset of Rapid Accretion by a Dormant Massive Black Hole

Friday, April 29th, 2011

arXiv:1104.4787

by Burrows, D. N. and Kennea, J. A. and Ghisellini, G. and Mangano, V. and Zhang, B. and Page, K. L. and Eracleous, M. and Romano, P. and Sakamoto, T. and Falcone, A. D. and Osborne, J. P. and Campana, S. and Beardmore, A. P. and Breeveld, A. A. and Chester, M. M. and Corbet, R. and Covino, S. and Cummings, J. R. and D’Avanzo, P. and D’Elia, V. and Esposito, P. and Evans, P. A. and Fugazza, D. and Gelbord, J. M. and Hiroi, K. and Holland, S. T. and Huang, K. Y. and Im, M. and Israel, G. and Jeon, Y. and Jeon, Y. -B. and Kawai, N. and Krimm, H. A. and Mészáros, P. and Negoro, H. and Omodei, N. and Park, W. -K. and Perkins, J. S. and Sugizaki, M. and Sung, H. -I. and Tagliaferri, G. and Troja, E. and Ueda, Y. and Urata, Y. and Usui, R. and Antonelli, L. A. and Barthelmy, S. D. and Cusumano, G. and Giommi, P. and Marshall, F. E. and Melandri, A. and Perri, M. and Racusin, J. L. and Sbarufatti, B. and Siegel, M. H. and Gehrels, N.
Submitted to Nature. 4 pages, 3 figures (main paper). 26 pages, 13 figures (supplementary information)

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Cosmic Train Wreck by Massive Black Holes: Discovery of a kpc-Scale Triple Active Galactic Nucleus

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

arXiv:1104.3391

by Liu, Xin and Shen, Yue and Strauss, Michael A.
ApJL submitted

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