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Archive for the ‘stellar dynamics’ Category

Testing the black hole no-hair theorem at the galactic center: Perturbing effects of stars in the surrounding cluster

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

arXiv:1106.5056

by Sadeghian, Laleh and Will, Clifford M.
17 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity

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A sparse octree gravitational N-body code that runs entirely on the GPU processor

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

arXiv:1106.1900

by Bédorf, Jeroen and Gaburov, Evghenii and Zwart, Simon Portegies
Submitted to Journal of Computational Physics. 34 pages, 13 figures, single column

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Formation of Massive Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters. II. IMF and Primordial Mass Segregation

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

arXiv:1105.5884

by Goswami, Sanghamitra and Umbreit, Stefan and Bierbaum, Matt and Rasio, Frederic A.

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Tidally-Induced Apsidal Precession in Double White Dwarfs: a new mass measurement tool with LISA

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

arXiv:1105.4837

by Valsecchi, Francesca and Farr, Will M. and Willems, Bart and Deloye, Christopher . J. and Kalogera, Vassiliki
21 pages, 7 figures, submitted to APJ

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Secular theory of the orbital evolution of the young stellar disc in the Galactic Centre

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

arXiv:1105.4608

by Haas, Jaroslav and Subr, Ladislav and Vokrouhlicky, David
Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 11 pages, 6 figures

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Stellar Dynamics and Black Holes

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

arXiv:1103.5446

by Merritt, David
Talk presented at the “Chandrasekhar Centenary Conference” (2010)

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On the dynamical evolution of globular clusters. II- The isolated cluster

Friday, March 18th, 2011

arXiv:1103.3498

by Hénon, Michel
Originally published in 1965. 7 pages, 5 figures

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On the dynamical evolution of globular clusters

Friday, March 18th, 2011

arXiv:1103.3499

by Hénon, Michel
Originally published in 1961. 44 pages, 23 figures

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Efficient Merger of Binary Supermassive Black Holes in Merging Galaxies

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

arXiv:1103.0272

by Khan, Fazeel and Just, Andreas and Merritt, David
9 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

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Stellar Dynamics of Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.3180

by Merritt, David and Alexander, Tal and Mikkola, Seppo and Will, Clifford
28 pages, 16 figures

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Fast coalescence of massive black hole binaries from mergers of galactic nuclei: implications for low-frequency gravitational-wave astrophysics

Friday, February 25th, 2011

arXiv:1102.4855

by Preto, Miguel and Berentzen, Ingo and Berczik, Peter and Spurzem, Rainer
6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Submitted to ApJL

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Particle-Particle Particle-Tree: A Direct-Tree Hybrid Scheme for Collisional N-Body Simulations

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1101.5504

by Oshino, Shoichi and Funato, Yoko and Makino, Junichiro
22 pages, 15 figures

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On minor black holes in galactic nuclei

Monday, February 7th, 2011

arXiv:1102.0260

by McKernan, Barry and Ford, K. E. Saavik and Yaqoob, Tahir and Winter, Lisa M.
6 pages. MNRAS Letters (accepted)

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Fractal Geometry of Angular Momentum Evolution in Near-Keplerian Systems

Thursday, November 25th, 2010

arXiv:1011.5226

by Gürkan, M. Atakan
5 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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The coupling of a young stellar disc with the molecular torus in the Galactic centre

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

arXiv:1011.3815

by Haas, Jaroslav and Subr, Ladislav and Kroupa, Pavel
Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table

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The impact of realistic models of mass segregation on the event rate of extreme-mass ratio inspirals and cusp re-growth

Friday, October 29th, 2010

arXiv:1010.5781

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Preto, Miguel
Submitted to Class. Quantum Grav.; based on the invited plenary talk of P. Amaro-Seoane at the LISA Symposium 2010

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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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Recoiling Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Relationship to AGN Lifetimes, Starbursts, and the M-sigma Relation

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

arXiv:1009.4940

by Blecha, Laura and Cox, Thomas J. and Loeb, Abraham and Hernquist, Lars
29 pages, 18 figures. Submitted to MNRAS

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Relativistic encounters of more than two black holes

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

arXiv:1009.1870

by Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Freitag, Marc Dewi
A small note of 5 pages, submitted to MNRAS letts

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Dynamical friction of massive objects in galactic centres

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

arXiv:1009.2455

by Just, A. and Khan, F. M. and Berczik, P. and Ernst, A. and Spurzem, R.
22 pages, 28 figures, accepted by MNRAS

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Collisional formation of very massive stars in dense clusters

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0283

by Moeckel, Nickolas and Clarke, Cathie J.
8 pages, submitted to MNRAS. Includes revisions per referee’s comments

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Tidal breakup of binary stars at the Galactic Center. II. Hydrodynamic simulations

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

arXiv:1008.5369

by Antonini, Fabio and Lombardi, James C. and Merritt, David
20 pages, 16 figures

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Croatian Black Hole School 2010 lecture notes on IMBHs in GCs

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4477

by Pasquato, Mario
These lecture notes are based on the series of invited lectures on IMBHs I delivered at the June 2010 Croatian Black Hole School ( organizer: Jarah Evslin, site: http://antimodave.jimdo.com )

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Nuclear Star Clusters from Clustered Star Formation

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2986

by Agarwal, Meghann and Milosavljevic, Milos
11 pages, 12 figures

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The Orbital Structure of Triaxial Galaxies with Figure Rotation

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2753

by Deibel, Alex T. and Valluri, Monica and Merritt, David
22 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to ApJ August 2010. High resolution version available at http://astro.lsa.umich.edu/~mvalluri/preprints.html

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Widespread presence of shallow cusps in the surface-brightness profile of globular clusters

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2771

by Vesperini, Enrico and Trenti, Michele
14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, Letters

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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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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 Galactic Centre star S2 as a dynamical probe for intermediate-mass black holes

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3563

by Gualandris, Alessia and Gillessen, Stefan and Merritt, David
8 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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