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Supermassive Black Hole in an Elliptical Galaxy: Accretion of a Hot Gas with a Low but Finite Angular Momentum

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1101.5550

by 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)

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On minor black holes in galactic nuclei

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0260

by McKernan, Barry and Ford, K. E. Saavik and Yaqoob, Tahir and Winter, Lisa M.
6 pages. MNRAS Letters (accepted)

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Near-infrared polarimetry as a tool for testing properties of accreting super-massive black holes

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0775

by 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

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Supermassive black holes do not correlate with dark matter halos of galaxies

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

arXiv:1101.4650

by Kormendy, John and Bender, Ralf
12 pages, 9 Postscript figures, 1 table; published in Nature (20 January 2011)

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The Black-Hole Mass in M87 from Gemini/NIFS Adaptive Optics Observations

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

arXiv:1101.1954

by 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

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Relation Between Globular Clusters and Supermassive Black Holes in Ellipticals as a Manifestation of the Black Hole Fundamental Plane

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1101.1299

by Snyder, Gregory F. and Hopkins, Philip F. and Hernquist, Lars
7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

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HST WFC3/IR Observations of Active Galactic Nucleus Host Galaxies at z~2: Supermassive Black Holes Grow in Disk Galaxies

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.1855

by 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

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Dynamical Black Hole Masses of BL Lac Objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.1601

by 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

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A New Catalog of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way

Monday, January 10th, 2011

arXiv:1012.3224

by Harris, William E.
6 pages, 4 figures

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Performance of astrometric detection of a hotspot orbiting on the innermost stable circular orbit of the galactic centre black hole

Friday, November 26th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5439

by 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

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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, 2010

arXiv:1011.5246

by 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

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Color Behavior Of BL Lacertae Object OJ 287 During Optical Outburst

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

arXiv:1011.4989

by Dai, Yan and Wu, Jianghua and Zhu, Zong-Hong and Zhou, Xu and Ma, Jun
25 pages, 13 figures

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Fast variability of gamma-ray emission from supermassive black hole binary OJ 287

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.4020

by Neronov, Andrii and Vovk, Ievgen
Accepted to MNRAS, 6 pages, 5 figures

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Evidence for Low Black Hole Spin and Physically Motivated Accretion Models from Millimeter VLBI Observations of Sagittarius A*

Monday, November 15th, 2010

arXiv:1011.2770

by Broderick, Avery E. and Fish, Vincent L. and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Loeb, Abraham
15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to ApJ

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The Murmur of The Hidden Monster: Chandra’s Decadal View of The Super-massive Black Hole in M31

Friday, November 5th, 2010

arXiv:1011.1224

by 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

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Probing Intermediate Mass Black Holes With Optical Emission Lines from Tidally Disrupted White Dwarfs

Monday, November 1st, 2010

arXiv:1010.6087

by Clausen, Drew and Eracleous, Michael
19 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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Multiwavelength VLBI observations of Sagittarius A*

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1287

by 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

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Searching for an Intermediate Mass Black Hole in the Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy MRK 996

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

arXiv:1009.5382

by Georgakakis, A. and Tsamis, Y. G. and James, B. L. and Aloisi, A.
Submitted to MNRAS

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Hierarchical Assembly of Supermassive Black Holes: Adaptive Optics Imaging of Double-Peaked [O III] Active Galactic Nuclei

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

arXiv:1009.0767

by 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

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The Black Hole Mass in Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 6086

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

arXiv:1009.0750

by McConnell, Nicholas J. and Ma, Chung-Pei and Graham, James R. and Gebhardt, Karl and Lauer, Tod R. and Wright, Shelley A. and Richstone, Douglas O.
21 pages, 17 figures; submitted to ApJ

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The central black hole mass of the high-sigma but low-bulge-luminosity lenticular galaxy NGC 1332

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0515

by Rusli, Stephanie P. and Thomas, Jens and Erwin, Peter and Saglia, Roberto P. and Nowak, Nina and Bender, Ralf
15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. I. Methodology and Results of Pilot Study

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4602

by Bennert, Vardha Nicola and Auger, Matthew W. and Treu, Tommaso and Woo, Jong-Hak and Malkan, Matthew A.
27 pages, 19 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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X-ray study of HLX1: intermediate-mass black hole or foreground neutron star?

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3382

by Soria, Roberto and Zampieri, Luca and Zane, Silvia and Wu, Kinwah
10 pages, accepted by MNRAS. Corrected LZ’s affiliation and updated 1 reference

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A Radio Census of Binary Supermassive Black Holes

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4382

by Burke-Spolaor, Sarah
11 Pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A Tidal Disruption Flare in Abell 1689 from an Archival X-ray Survey of Galaxy Clusters

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4140

by Maksym, Peter and Ulmer, Melville P. and Eracleous, Michael
24 pages, including 6 figures and 2 tables Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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A Redshift for the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate HLX-1: Confirmation of its Association with the Galaxy ESO 243-49

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4125

by Wiersema, Klaas and Farrell, Sean A. and Webb, Natalie A. and Servillat, Mathieu and Maccarone, Thomas J. and Barret, Didier and Godet, Olivier
5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL on 20th May 2010, accepted for publication 20th July 2010

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Variability and stability in optical blazar jets: the case of OJ287

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.3082

by Villforth, C. and Nilsson, K. and Heidt, J. and Pursimo, T.
To appear in the proceedings of the meeting “Steady and Transient Jets”, held in Bonn, Germany (7-8 April 2010)

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A new globular cluster black hole in NGC 4472

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2896

by Maccarone, Thomas J. and Kundu, Arunav and Zepf, Stephen E. and Rhode, Katherine L.
6 pages, one 2-panel figure, 2 tables; accepted to MNRAS

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Rapid Flux Variability of Sgr A*

Monday, August 16th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2229

by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Wardle, M. and Miller-Jones, J. and Roberts, D. and Porquet, D. and Grosso, N.
20 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ

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The two states of Sgr A* in the near-infrared: bright episodic flares on top of low-level continuous variability

Friday, August 13th, 2010

arXiv:1008.1984

by Dodds-Eden, K. and Gillessen, S. and Fritz, T. K. and Eisenhauer, F. and Trippe, S. and Genzel, R. and Ott, T. and Bartko, H. and Pfuhl, O. and Bower, G. and Goldwurm, A. and Porquet, D. and Trap, G. and Yusef-Zadeh, F.
16 pages, 9 figures, submitted to ApJ

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