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Archive for the ‘Sagittarius A*’ Category
Tilted black hole accretion disc models of Sagittarius A*: time-variable millimetre to near-infrared emission
Monday, April 23rd, 2012by Dexter, Jason and Fragile, P. Chris
17 pages, 18 figures, submitted to MNRAS; for movies and version with high-res figures see http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jdexter/tiltedsgra
The S-Star Cluster at the Center of the Milky Way: On the nature of diffuse NIR emission in the inner tenth of a parsec
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Sabha, Nadeen and Eckart, Andreas and Merritt, David and Zamaninasab, Mohammad and Witzel, Gunther and García-Marín, Macarena and Jalali, Behrang and Valencia-S., Monica and Yazici, Senol and Buchholz, Rainer and Shahzamanian, Banafsheh and Straubmeier, Christian
13 pages, 11 figures, submitted to A&A
Modelling the black hole silhouette in Sgr A* with ion tori
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Straub, Odele and Vincent, Frederic H. and Abramowicz, Marek A. and Gourgoulhon, Eric and Paumard, Thibaut
11 pages, 10 figures, submitted to A & A
A star disrupted by a stellar black hole as the origin of the cloud falling towards the Galactic center
Monday, February 27th, 2012In situ formation of SgrA* stars via disk fragmentation: parent cloud properties and thermodynamics
Monday, February 6th, 2012by Mapelli, M. and Hayfield, T. and Mayer, L. and Wadsley, J.
16 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Physics of the Galactic Center Cloud G2, on its Way towards the Super-Massive Black Hole
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Burkert, Andreas and Schartmann, Mark and Alig, Christian and Gillessen, Stefan and Genzel, Reinhard and Fritz, Tobias and Eisenhauer, Frank
22 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Non-Thermal Insights on Mass and Energy Flows Through the Galactic Centre and into the Fermi Bubbles
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Towards the use of the most massive black hole candidates in AGN to test the Kerr paradigm
Saturday, December 24th, 2011A gas cloud on its way towards the super-massive black hole in the Galactic Centre
Thursday, December 15th, 2011by Gillessen, S. and Genzel, R. and Fritz, T. K. and Quataert, E. and Alig, C. and Burkert, A. and Cuadra, J. and Eisenhauer, F. and Pfuhl, O. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Gammie, C. F. and Ott, T.
in press at Nature
Prospects for Probing the Spacetime of Sgr A* with Pulsars
Monday, December 12th, 2011by Liu, K. and Wex, N. and Kramer, M. and Cordes, J. M. and Lazio, T. J. W.
12 pages, 10 Figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
The Cluster of Blue Stars Surrounding the M31 Nuclear Black Hole
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Lauer, Tod R. and Bender, Ralf and Kormendy, John and Rosenfield, Philip and Green, Richard F.
29 pages, 11 figures (3 color); Astrophysical Journal accepted
Surviving the hole I: Spatially resolved chemistry around Sgr A*
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011by Martín, S. and Martín-Pintado, J. and Montero-Castaño, M. and Ho, P. T. P. and Blundell, R.
12 pages, 22 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Sgr A* flares: tidal disruption of asteroids and planets?
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Zubovas, Kastytis and Nayakshin, Sergei and Markoff, Sera
11 pages. MNRAS submitted
Dissipationless Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011by Antonini, Fabio and Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto and Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra and Merritt, David
15 pages, 14 figure. Submitted to ApJ
Polarimetric Imaging of Sgr A* in its Flaring State
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Melia, Fulvio and Falanga, Maurizio and Goldwurm, Andrea
Accepted for Publication in MNRAS, September 26, 2011
Towards constraining the central black hole’s properties by studying its infrared flares with the GRAVITY instrument
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011by Vincent, F. H. and Paumard, T. and Perrin, G. and Gourgoulhon, E. and Eisenhauer, F. and Gillessen, S.
5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SF2A)
Galactic Centre star formation: the case of the missing gas disc
Friday, September 23rd, 2011by Alexander, R. D. and Smedley, S. L. and Nayakshin, S. and King, A. R.
7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
HST Observations of the Stellar Distribution Near Sgr A*
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Bushouse, H. and Wardle, M.
16 pages, 7 figures, ApJ, in press
New Evidence for High Activity of the Super-Massive Black Hole in our Galaxy
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011by Nobukawa, Masayoshi and Ryu, Syukyo G. and Tsuru, Takeshi Go and Koyama, Katsuji
4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Coronal radiation of a cusp of spun-up stars and the X-ray luminosity of Sgr A*
Thursday, August 18th, 2011by Sazonov, S. and Sunyaev, R. and Revnivtsev, M.
16 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center?
Monday, July 18th, 2011by Lang, Meagan and Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly and Bogdanovic, Tamara and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sesana, Alberto
9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome and may be incorporated into the paper with attribution
Perturbed stellar motions around the rotating black hole in Sgr A* for a generic orientation of its spin axis
Monday, July 18th, 2011The mean infrared emission of SagittariusA*
Thursday, June 30th, 2011by 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
Testing the black hole no-hair theorem at the galactic center: Perturbing effects of stars in the surrounding cluster
Thursday, June 30th, 2011by Sadeghian, Laleh and Will, Clifford M.
17 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Sgr A*
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011by 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”
Secular theory of the orbital evolution of the young stellar disc in the Galactic Centre
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011by Haas, Jaroslav and Subr, Ladislav and Vokrouhlicky, David
Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 11 pages, 6 figures
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
Observability of pulsar beam bending by the Sgr~A* black hole
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011by Stovall, Kevin and Creighton, Teviet and Price, Richard H. and Jenet, Fredrick A.
18 pages, 16 figures
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