A Fokker-Planck Study of Dense Rotating Stellar Clusters
Friday, June 29th, 2012by Girash, John
134 pages. Ph.D. dissertation (Harvard U. Dept. of Physics) 2009
Editors: Pau Amaro-Seoane & Bernard Schutz
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An upper limit to the velocity dispersion of relaxed stellar systems without massive black holes
Friday, June 29th, 2012by Miller, M. Coleman and Davies, Melvyn B.
8 pages, 2 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical Journal
A Parallel Monte Carlo Code for Simulating Collisional N-body Systems
Friday, June 29th, 2012by Pattabiraman, Bharath and Umbreit, Stefan and Liao, Wei-Keng and Choudhary, Alok and Kalogera, Vassiliki and Memik, Gokhan and Rasio, Frederic A.
47 pages, 12 figures, submitted to ApJ Supplements
The Nature of Hypervelocity Stars and the Time Between Their Formation and Ejection
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012by Brown, Warren R. and Cohen, Judith G. and Geller, Margaret J. and Kenyon, Scott J.
6 pages, accepted to ApJ Letters
Stellar dynamics and extreme-mass ratio inspirals
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Amaro-Seoane, Pau
160 pages, two columns. Invited review to Living Reviews in Relativity. Some parts profit from arXiv:astro-ph/0703495, although they have been significantly expanded and improved
The role of the supermassive black hole spin in the estimation of the EMRI event rate
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Sopuerta, Carlos F. and Freitag, Marc Dewi
Submitted. Abstract abridged
N-body Integrators with Individual Time Steps from Hierarchical Splitting
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Pelupessy, Federico I. and Jänes, Jürgen and Zwart, Simon F. Portegies
20 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in New Astronomy
Secular Dynamical Anti-Friction in Galactic Nuclei
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012Accelerating NBODY6 with Graphics Processing Units
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Nitadori, Keigo and Aarseth, Sverre J.
8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, MNRAS accepted
Fokker-Planck Models for M15 without a Central Black Hole: The Role of the Mass Function
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012by Murphy, Brian W. and Cohn, Haldan N. and Lugger, Phyllis M.
10 pages, 7 figures
Models of cuspy triaxial stellar systems. I. Stability and chaoticity
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012by Zorzi, Alejandra F. and Muzzio, Juan C.
10 pages, 5 figures. The Article has been submitted for publication in Monthly Notices of the RAS by the Royal Astronomical Society and Blackwell Publishing. At this time has been accepted but not yet published
Collisionless dynamics in Globular Clusters
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012by Williams, Liliya L. R. and Barnes, Eric I. and Hjorth, Jens
27 pages, 18 figures; accepted to MNRAS
On the Link Between Central Black Holes, Bar Dynamics, and Dark Matter Halos in Spiral Galaxies
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Treuthardt, Patrick and Seigar, Marc S. and Sierra, Amber D. and Al-Baidhany, Ismaeel and Salo, Heikki and Kennefick, Daniel and Kennefick, Julia and Lacy, Claud H. S.
17 pages, 1 table, 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
A pilgrimage to gravity on GPUs
Saturday, April 21st, 2012by Bédorf, Jeroen and Zwart, Simon Portegies
To appear in: European Physical Journal “Special Topics” : “Computer Simulations on Graphics Processing Units” . 18 pages, 8 figures
Bonsai: A GPU Tree-Code
Thursday, April 12th, 2012by Bédorf, Jeroen and Gaburov, Evghenii and Zwart, Simon Portegies
5 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of “Advances in Computational Astrophysics: methods, tools and outcomes”, June 13-17, 2011, Cefalu, Sicily, Italy, eds. Capuzzo Dolcetta, Limongi, Tornambe and Giobbi
Chaotic orbits in a 3D galactic dynamical model with a double nucleus
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Caranicolas, Nicolaos D. and Zotos, Euaggelos E.
Published in Mechanics Research Communications journal
Binary Disruption by Massive Black Holes: Hypervelocity Stars, S Stars, and Tidal Disruption Events
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012by Bromley, Benjamin C. and Kenyon, Scott J. and Geller, Margaret J. and Brown, Warren R.
ApJ Letters, accepted; 13 pages, including 3 figures
Evolution of binary black holes in self gravitating discs: dissecting the torques
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012by Roedig, Constanze and Sesana, Alberto and Dotti, Massimo and Cuadra, Jorge and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Haardt, Francesco
14 pages, 12 Figures, submitted to MNRAS
A star disrupted by a stellar black hole as the origin of the cloud falling towards the Galactic center
Monday, February 27th, 2012Mergers and ejections of black holes in globular clusters
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012Dynamics of secular evolution
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Binney, James
43 pages. Lectures given at the XXIII Canary islands winter school of astrophysics, November 2011 To appear in “Secular Evolution of Galaxies” ed. J. Falcon-Barroso & J.H. Knapen
Mergers of Unequal Mass Galaxies: Supermassive Black Hole Binary Evolution and Structure of Merger Remnants
Thursday, February 16th, 2012by Khan, Fazeel Mahmood and Preto, Miguel and Berczik, Peter and Berentzen, Ingo and Just, Andreas and Spurzem, Rainer
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). 14 pages, 8 figures
How well do STARLAB and NBODY compare? II: Hardware and accuracy
Monday, January 30th, 2012by 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
Interaction of Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes with Stars in Galactic Nuclei
Thursday, January 19th, 2012by Li, Shuo and Liu, F. K. and Berczik, Peter and Chen, Xian and Spurzem, Rainer
38 pages, 10 figues; accepted for publication in ApJ
PSDF: Particle Stream Data Format for N-Body Simulations
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by 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
A dynamical study of Galactic globular clusters under different relaxation conditions
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Zocchi, A. and Bertin, G. and Varri, A. L.
18 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Chaotic mixing and the secular evolution of triaxial cuspy galaxy models built with Schwarzschild’s method
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012MOCCA Code for Star Cluster Simulations – II. Comparison with N-body Simulations
Monday, January 2nd, 2012by Giersz, Mirek and Heggie, Douglas C. and Hurley, Jarrod and Hypki, Arkadiusz
15 pages, 24 figures
Implementation of a Parallel Tree Method on a GPU
Saturday, December 24th, 2011by Nakasato, Naohito
Journal of Computational Science, 2011; See our recent update at http://galaxy.u-aizu.ac.jp/trac/note/wiki/Octree_On_GPU
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