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Archive for the ‘stellar dynamics’ Category

How well do STARLAB and NBODY compare? II: Hardware and accuracy

Monday, January 30th, 2012

arXiv:1201.5692

by Anders, P. and Baumgardt, H. and Gaburov, E. and Zwart, S. Portegies
14 pages incl. 3 pages with figures and 4 pages of tables (analysis results), MNRAS in press

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Interaction of Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes with Stars in Galactic Nuclei

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

arXiv:1201.3407

by Li, Shuo and Liu, F. K. and Berczik, Peter and Chen, Xian and Spurzem, Rainer
38 pages, 10 figues; accepted for publication in ApJ

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PSDF: Particle Stream Data Format for N-Body Simulations

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1694

by Farr, Will M. and Ames, Jeff and Hut, Piet and Makino, Junichiro and McMillan, Steve and Muranushi, Takayuki and Nakamura, Koichi and Nitadori, Keigo and Zwart, Simon Portegies
5 pages; submitted to New Astronomy

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A dynamical study of Galactic globular clusters under different relaxation conditions

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

arXiv:1201.1466

by Zocchi, A. and Bertin, G. and Varri, A. L.
18 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Chaotic mixing and the secular evolution of triaxial cuspy galaxy models built with Schwarzschild’s method

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

arXiv:1201.0667

by Vasiliev, E. and Athanassoula, E.
13 pages, 10 figures

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MOCCA Code for Star Cluster Simulations – II. Comparison with N-body Simulations

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

arXiv:1112.6246

by Giersz, Mirek and Heggie, Douglas C. and Hurley, Jarrod and Hypki, Arkadiusz
15 pages, 24 figures

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Implementation of a Parallel Tree Method on a GPU

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

arXiv:1112.4539

by Nakasato, Naohito
Journal of Computational Science, 2011; See our recent update at http://galaxy.u-aizu.ac.jp/trac/note/wiki/Octree_On_GPU

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The Cluster of Blue Stars Surrounding the M31 Nuclear Black Hole

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

arXiv:1112.1419

by 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

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The Gravitational Wave International Committee Roadmap: The future of gravitational wave astronomy

Monday, November 28th, 2011

arXiv:1111.5825

by Marx, Jay and Danzmann, Karsten and Hough, James and Kuroda, Kazuaki and McClelland, David and Mours, Benoit and Phinney, Sterl and Rowan, Sheila and Sathyaprakash, B. and Vetrano, Flavio and Vitale, Stefano and Whitcomb, Stan and Will, Clifford
116 pages. Original document in higher resolution can be found at https://gwic.ligo.org/roadmap/

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A Dynamical N-body Model for the Central Region of $\omega$ Centauri

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1111.5011

by Jalali, B. and Baumgardt, H. and Kissler-Patig, M. and Gebhardt, K. and Noyola, E. and Lützgendorf, N. and de Zeeuw, P. T.
Accepted for publication in A&A

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A new type of compact stellar population: dark star clusters

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4103

by Banerjee, Sambaran and Kroupa, Pavel
14 pages, 4 figures. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Counter-rotating stellar discs around a massive black hole: self-consistent, time-dependent dynamics

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4588

by Touma, Jihad R. and Sridhar, S.
41 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to MNRAS

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Relativistic Binaries in Globular Clusters

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4423

by Benacquista, Matthew J. and Downing, Jonathan M. B.
88 pages, 13 figures. Submitted update of Living Reviews article

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Massive black hole binaries: dynamical evolution and observational signatures

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1111.0664

by Dotti, M. and Sesana, A. and Decarli, R.
4 Figures. Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy

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Sgr A* flares: tidal disruption of asteroids and planets?

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6872

by Zubovas, Kastytis and Nayakshin, Sergei and Markoff, Sera
11 pages. MNRAS submitted

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A conservation-based method for simulating the inspiral of binary black holes

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.6491

by Meiron, Yohai and Laor, Ari
12 pages, 9 figures

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Dissipationless Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.5937

by Antonini, Fabio and Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Roberto and Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra and Merritt, David
15 pages, 14 figure. Submitted to ApJ

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REBOUND: An open-source multi-purpose N-body code for collisional dynamics

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

arXiv:1110.4876

by Rein, Hanno and Liu, Shang-Fei
10 pages, 9 figures, re-submitted to A&A, source code available at https://github.com/hannorein/rebound

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Galactic Centre star formation: the case of the missing gas disc

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

arXiv:1109.4148

by Alexander, R. D. and Smedley, S. L. and Nayakshin, S. and King, A. R.
7 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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HST Observations of the Stellar Distribution Near Sgr A*

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.2175

by Yusef-Zadeh, F. and Bushouse, H. and Wardle, M.
16 pages, 7 figures, ApJ, in press

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Massive black hole binary plane reorientation in rotating stellar systems

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

arXiv:1109.3707

by Gualandris, Alessia and Dotti, Massimo and Sesana, Alberto
5 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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The butterfly effect in the extreme-mass ratio inspiral problem

Monday, August 29th, 2011

arXiv:1108.5174

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Brem, Patrick and Cuadra, Jorge and Armitage, Philip J.
Submitted

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Kicking massive black holes off clusters: Intermediate-mass ratio inspirals

Monday, August 29th, 2011

arXiv:1108.5175

by Konstantinidis, Symeon and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Submitted

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Stability and chaos of hierarchical three black hole configurations

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4485

by Galaviz, Pablo
15 pages, 15 figures and 4 tables

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Testing Photometric Diagnostics for the Dynamical State and Possible IMBH presence in Globular Clusters

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

arXiv:1108.4425

by Noyola, Eva and Baumgardt, Holger
Accepted for publication in ApJ

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Evolution of growing black holes in axisymmetric galaxy cores

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1108.3993

by Fiestas, Jose and Porth, Oliver and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
15 pages, 7 figures,accepted by MNRAS

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Dynamical Friction around Supermassive Black Holes

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.1163

by Antonini, Fabio and Merritt, David
28 pages, 23 figures

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Tidal disruption rate of stars by supermassive black holes obtained by direct N-body simulations

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

arXiv:1108.2270

by Brockamp, M. and Baumgardt, H. and Kroupa, P.
19 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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Long-term evolution of massive black hole binaries. IV. Mergers of galaxies with collisionally relaxed nuclei

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

arXiv:1107.4095

by Gualandris, Alessia and Merritt, David
22 pages, 23 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Perturbed stellar motions around the rotating black hole in Sgr A* for a generic orientation of its spin axis

Monday, July 18th, 2011

arXiv:1107.2916

by Iorio, Lorenzo
LaTex2e, 21 pages, 4 tables, no figures

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