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Archive for the ‘Sagittarius A*’ Category

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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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 Eccentric Disc Instability: Dependency on Background Stellar Cluster

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1277

by Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published 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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Mass Segregation in the Galactic Centre

Monday, February 8th, 2010

arXiv:1002.1220

by Hopman, Clovis and Madigan, Ann-Marie
Proceedings article to be published 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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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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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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The Impact of Stellar Collisions in the Galactic Center

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1002.0338

by Davies, M. B. and Church, R. P. and Malmberg, D. and Nzoke, S. and Dale, J. and Freitag, M.
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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The extreme luminosity states of Sagittarius A*

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

arXiv:1001.1351

by Sabha, N. and Witzel, G. and Eckart, A. and Buchholz, R. M. and Bremer, M. and Giessuebel, R. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Schoedel, R. and Straubmeier, C. and Zamaninasab, M. and Zernickel, A.
18 pages, 13 figures, accepted by A&A

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Inflow-Outflow Solution with Stellar Winds and Conduction near Sgr A*

Friday, December 18th, 2009

arXiv:0912.3255

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Baganoff, Frederick K.
3 pages, 2 figures; to be published in “The Galactic Center: a Window to the Nuclear Activity of Disk Galaxies”, ed. Mark Morris et al., Astron. Soc. Pacific, 2010

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Near infrared flares of Sagittarius A*: Importance of near infrared polarimetry

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4659

by Zamaninasab, M. and Eckart, A. and Witzel, G. and Dovciak, M. and Karas, V. and Giessuebel, R. Schoedel R. and Bremer, M. and Garcia-Marin, M. and Kunneriath, D. and Muzic, K. and Nishiyama, S. and Sabha, N. and Straubmeier, C. and Zensus, A.
26 pages, 38 figures, accepted for publication by A&A

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Testing Properties of the Galactic Center Black Hole Using Stellar Orbits

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

arXiv:0911.4718

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford M.
18 pages, 9 figures

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Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic Centre

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4960

by Loeckmann, Ulf and Baumgardt, Holger and Kroupa, Pavel
MNRAS, accepted, 8 pages, 4 figures

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Two temperature accretion around rotating black holes: Description of general advective flow paradigm in presence of various cooling processes to explain low to high luminous sources

Monday, October 26th, 2009

arXiv:0910.4502

by Rajesh, S. R. and Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
25 pages including 22 figures; to appear in MNRAS

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On the spatial distribution and the origin of hypervelocity stars

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3260

by Lu, Youjun and Zhang, Fupeng and Yu, Qingjuan
7 pages, 5 figures

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The orbit of the star S2 around SgrA* from VLT and Keck data

Monday, October 19th, 2009

arXiv:0910.3069

by Gillessen, S. and Eisenhauer, F. and Fritz, T. K. and Bartko, H. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Pfuhl, O. and Ott, T. and Genzel, R.
submitted to ApJL

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Soft gamma-ray constraints on a bright flare from the Galactic Center supermassive black hole

Monday, October 5th, 2009

arXiv:0910.0399

by Trap, G. and Goldwurm, A. and Terrier, R. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Gillessen, S. and Genzel, R. and Pantin, E. and Lagage, P. O. and Ferrando, P. and Belanger, G. and Porquet, D. and Grosso, N. and Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Melia, F.
30 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ASR

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The Distribution of Stars and Stellar Remnants at the Galactic Center

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

arXiv:0909.1318

by Merritt, David
22 pages, 18 figures

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Radial Distribution of X-ray Point Sources near the Galactic Center

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

arXiv:0908.4306

by Hong, Jaesub and Berg, Maureen van den and Grindlay, Jonathan E. and Laycock, Silas
17 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal

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Nuclear Disk Formation by Direct Collisions of Gas Clouds with the Central Black Hole

Monday, August 10th, 2009

arXiv:0908.1100

by Alig, Christian and Burkert, Andreas and Johansson, Peter H. and Schartmann, Marc
10 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Tidal effects in the vicinity of a black hole

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0117

by Cadez, A. and Kostic, U. and Calvani, M.
11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Zeldovich Meeting 2009, Minsk

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Polarized Emission of Sagittarius A*

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5463

by Huang, Lei and Liu, Siming and Shen, Zhi-Qiang and Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cai, Mike J. and Li, Hui and Fryer, Christopher L.
27 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted

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Near-infrared Polarimetry of flares from Sgr A* with Subaru/CIAO

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0907.5466

by Nishiyama, Shogo and Tamura, Motohide and Hatano, Hirofumi and Nagata, Tetsuya and Kudo, Tomoyuki and Ishii, Miki and Schödel, Rainer and Eckart, Andreas
14 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. For higher resolution, see http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shogo/paper/ApJ/SgrAS08/09NishiyamaSgrASNIRPol.pdf

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Oscillation Phenomena in the disk around the massive black hole Sagittarius A*

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5511

by Miyoshi, M. and Shen, Zhi-Qiang and Oyama, T. and Takahashi, R. and Kato, Y.
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MN Letter

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Measuring spin of a supermassive black hole at the Galactic centre — Implications for a unique spin

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5423

by Kato, Y. and Miyoshi, M. and Takahashi, R. and Negoro, H. and Matsumoto, R.
5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS LETTER

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Nonthermal transient phenomena around rotating black holes

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

arXiv:0905.3367

by van Putten, Maurice H. P. M.
Invited review, in Orleans School On The Sciences Of The Universe: Mass Motion (Springer-Verlag), to appear

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Images of the radiatively inefficient accretion flow surrounding a Kerr black hole: application in Sgr A*

Friday, May 1st, 2009

arXiv:0904.4090

by Yuan, Ye-Fei and Cao, Xinwu and Huang, Lei and Shen, Zhi-Qiang
13 pages, 6 figures, ApJ accepted

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