Localizing Sagittarius A* and M87 on Microarcsecond Scales with Millimeter VLBI
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011by Broderick, Avery E. and Loeb, Abraham and Reid, Mark J.
18 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
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A relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011by Bloom, Joshua S. and Giannios, Dimitrios and Metzger, Brian D. and Cenko, S. Bradley and Perley, Daniel A. and Butler, Nathaniel R. and Tanvir, Nial R. and Levan, Andrew J. and Brien, Paul T. O’ and Strubbe, Linda E. and De Colle, Fabio and Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico and Lee, William H. and Nayakshin, Sergei and Quataert, Eliot and King, Andrew R. and Cucchiara, Antonino and Guillochon, James and Bower, Geoffrey C. and Fruchter, Andrew S. and Morgan, Adam N. and van der Horst, Alexander J.
Submitted, 32 pages including supplemental online material
Constraints on the black hole spin in the quasar SDSS J094533.99+100950.1
Friday, April 15th, 2011by Czerny, Bozena and Hryniewicz, Krzysztof and Nikolajuk, Marek and Sadowski, Aleksander
The Cool Accretion Disk in ESO 243-49 HLX-1: Further Evidence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole
Friday, April 15th, 2011by Davis, Shane W. and Narayan, Ramesh and Zhu, Yucong and Barret, Didier and Farrell, Sean A. and Godet, Olivier and Servillat, Mathieu and Webb, Natalie A.
10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Supermassive Black Hole Mass Estimates Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Spectra at 0.7 < z < 2
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011by Rafiee, Alireza and Hall, Patrick B.
38 Pages, 12 figures, 3 Tables, 1 hyperlink to catalogue data. Accepted for publication in ApJS
Constraining the coalescence rate of supermassive black-hole binaries using pulsar timing
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011by Wen, Z. L. and Jenet, F. A. and Yardley, D. and Hobbs, G. B. and Manchester, R. N.
Estimates of Black Hole Spin Properties of 55 Sources
Monday, March 7th, 2011Evidence for Black Hole Growth in Local Analogs to Lyman Break Galaxies
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011by Jia, Jianjun and Ptak, Andrew and Heckman, Timothy M. and Overzier, Roderik A. and Hornschemeier, Ann and LaMassa, Stephanie M.
Accepted for publication in ApJ
Observational constraints on the spin of the most massive black holes from radio observations
Monday, February 14th, 2011by Martinez-Sansigre, Alejo and Rawlings, Steve
Accepted for publication by MNRAS. 30 Pages, 14 Figures, 5 Tables
The Relation between Black Hole Mass and Host Spheroid Stellar Mass out to z~2
Friday, February 11th, 2011by Bennert, Vardha Nicola and Auger, Matthew W. and Treu, Tommaso and Woo, Jong-Hak and Malkan, Matthew A.
7 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Radio Continuum Observations of 47 Tucanae and Omega Centauri: Hints for Intermediate-mass Black Holes?
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011Supermassive Black Hole in an Elliptical Galaxy: Accretion of a Hot Gas with a Low but Finite Angular Momentum
Monday, February 7th, 2011by Inogamov, N. A. and Sunyaev, R. A.
Full text of the paper with two Appendices is published in Astronomy Letters, Vol. 36, p. 835 (2010)
On minor black holes in galactic nuclei
Monday, February 7th, 2011by McKernan, Barry and Ford, K. E. Saavik and Yaqoob, Tahir and Winter, Lisa M.
6 pages. MNRAS Letters (accepted)
Near-infrared polarimetry as a tool for testing properties of accreting super-massive black holes
Monday, February 7th, 2011by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Schoedel, R. and Witzel, G. and Sabha, N. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Straubmeier, C. and Valencia-S, M. and Zensus, J. A.
12 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter halos of galaxies
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011by Kormendy, John and Bender, Ralf
12 pages, 9 Postscript figures, 1 table; published in Nature (20 January 2011)
The Black-Hole Mass in M87 from Gemini/NIFS Adaptive Optics Observations
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011by Gebhardt, Karl and Adams, Joshua and Richstone, Douglas and Lauer, Tod R. and Faber, S. M. and Gultekin, Kayhan and Murphy, Jeremy and Tremaine, Scott
12 pages, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Relation Between Globular Clusters and Supermassive Black Holes in Ellipticals as a Manifestation of the Black Hole Fundamental Plane
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Snyder, Gregory F. and Hopkins, Philip F. and Hernquist, Lars
7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
HST WFC3/IR Observations of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies at z~2: Supermassive Black Holes Grow in Disk Galaxies
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Schawinski, Kevin and Treister, Ezequiel and Urry, C. Megan and Cardamone, Carolin N. and Simmons, Brooke and Yi, Sukyoung K.
7 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Dynamical Black Hole Masses of BL Lac Objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Monday, January 10th, 2011by Plotkin, Richard M. and Markoff, Sera and Trager, Scott C. and Anderson, Scott F.
9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
A New Catalog of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way
Monday, January 10th, 2011Performance of astrometric detection of a hotspot orbiting on the innermost stable circular orbit of the galactic centre black hole
Friday, November 26th, 2010by Vincent, F. H. and Paumard, T. and Perrin, G. and Mugnier, L. and Eisenhauer, F. and Gillessen, S.
13 pages, 11 figures ; accepted by MNRAS
Type 2 Active Galactic Nuclei with Double-Peaked [OIII] Lines. II. Resulting More from Narrow-Line Region Kinematics than from Merging Supermassive Black Hole Pairs
Thursday, November 25th, 2010by Shen, Yue and Liu, Xin and Greene, Jenny and Strauss, Michael
62 pages with many figures; color print preferred; some figures not included due to size limit; the complete and high-resolution version can be downloaded at https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~yshen/papers/double_o3_paper2.pdf
Color Behavior Of BL Lacertae Object OJ 287 During Optical Outburst
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010by Dai, Yan and Wu, Jianghua and Zhu, Zong-Hong and Zhou, Xu and Ma, Jun
25 pages, 13 figures
Fast variability of gamma-ray emission from supermassive black hole binary OJ 287
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Evidence for Low Black Hole Spin and Physically Motivated Accretion Models from Millimeter VLBI Observations of Sagittarius A*
Monday, November 15th, 2010by Broderick, Avery E. and Fish, Vincent L. and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Loeb, Abraham
15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
The Murmur of The Hidden Monster: Chandra’s Decadal View of The Super-massive Black Hole in M31
Friday, November 5th, 2010by Li, Zhiyuan and Garcia, Michael R. and Forman, William R. and Jones, Christine and Kraft, Ralph P. and Lal, Dharam V. and Murray, Stephen S. and Wang, Q. Daniel
12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL, comments welcome
Probing Intermediate Mass Black Holes With Optical Emission Lines from Tidally Disrupted White Dwarfs
Monday, November 1st, 2010by Clausen, Drew and Eracleous, Michael
19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Multiwavelength VLBI observations of Sagittarius A*
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010by Lu, R. -S. and Krichbaum, T. P. and Eckart, A. and König, S. and ~Kunneriath, D. and Witzel, G. and Witzel, A. and Zensus, J. A.
14pages, 14 Figures, Accepted for publication in A&A
Searching for an Intermediate Mass Black Hole in the Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy MRK 996
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010by Georgakakis, A. and Tsamis, Y. G. and James, B. L. and Aloisi, A.
Submitted to MNRAS
Hierarchical Assembly of Supermassive Black Holes: Adaptive Optics Imaging of Double-Peaked [O III] Active Galactic Nuclei
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010by Fu, Hai and Myers, Adam D. and Djorgovski, S. G. and Yan, Lin
Submitted to ApJL. emulateapj style, 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. For high-resolution images see http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~fu/hires/bbh_nirc2_f1.pdf