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Archive for the ‘Sagittarius A*’ Category

Secular Stellar Dynamics near a Massive Black Hole

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

arXiv:1010.1535

by Madigan, Ann-Marie and Hopman, Clovis and Levin, Yuri
22 pages, 27 figures, submitted to ApJ

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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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Constraining scalar fields with stellar kinematics and collisional dark matter

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0019

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barranco, Juan and Bernal, Argelia and Rezzolla, Luciano
22 pages, 8 figures; submitted to JCAP

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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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Testing GR with Galactic-centre Stars

Monday, August 9th, 2010

arXiv:1008.1061

by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit
Contributed talk in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies”, Shanghai 19-23/10/2009. To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris, Daniel Q. Wang and Feng Yuan (4 pages, 2 figures)

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Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by General Relativistic Dynamical and Polarized Radiative Modeling

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4832

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Penna, Robert F. and McKinney, Jonathan C.
17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Key questions about Galactic Center dynamics

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4991

by Alexander, Tal
Invited overview lecture in “The Galactic Center, a window to the nuclear environment of disk galaxies” (Shanghai 19-23/10/2009). To appear in ASP Conf. Proc. Ser. “Galactic center workshop 2009″ ed. Mark Morris (12 pp 5 fig)

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Towards relativistic orbit fitting of Galactic center stars and pulsars

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

arXiv:1007.0007

by Angelil, Raymond and Saha, Prasenjit and Merritt, David
20 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the ApJ

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The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster in the Center of the Milky Way

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0064

by Genzel, Reinhard and Eisenhauer, Frank and Gillessen, Stefan
submitted to Rev.Mod.Phys.,comments are welcome

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Resonant relaxation and the warp of the stellar disc in the Galactic centre

Friday, June 4th, 2010

arXiv:1006.0001

by Kocsis, Bence and Tremaine, Scott
16 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Inflow-Outflow Model with Conduction and Self-Consistent Feeding for Sgr A*

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

arXiv:1004.0702

by Shcherbakov, Roman V. and Baganoff, Frederick K.
6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJL

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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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