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Archive for the ‘stellar dynamics’ Category

Tidal effects in the vicinity of a black hole

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0117

by Cadez, A. and Kostic, U. and Calvani, M.
11 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Zeldovich Meeting 2009, Minsk

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High angular resolution integral-field spectroscopy of the Galaxy’s nuclear cluster: a missing stellar cusp?

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

arXiv:0908.0311

by Do, Tuan and Ghez, Andrea M. and Morris, Mark R. and Lu, Jessica R. and Matthews, Keith and Yelda, Sylvana and Larkin, James
35 pages, 5 tables, 12 figures, accepted by ApJ

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Evolution of the Binary Fraction in Dense Stellar Systems

Monday, July 27th, 2009

arXiv:0907.4196

by Fregeau, J. M. and Ivanova, N. and Rasio, F. A.
8 pages, 7 figures in emulateapj format. Submitted to ApJ

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Mass and spin coevolution during the alignment of a black hole in a warped accretion disc

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

arXiv:0907.3742

by Perego, A. and Dotti, M. and Colpi, M. and Volonteri, M.
20 pages, 15 figures (jpg or png format), 3 tables; to be published in MNRAS

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The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution

Friday, July 10th, 2009

arXiv:0907.1608

by Cattaneo, A. and Faber, S. M. and Binney, J. and Dekel, A. and Kormendy, J. and Mushotzky, R. and Babul, A. and Best, P. N. and Brueggen, M. and Fabian, A. C. and Frenk, C. S. and Khalatyan, A. and Netzer, H. and Mahdavi, A. and Silk, J. and Steinmetz, M. and Wisotzki, L.
Nature Review 7 pages, 5 figures

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The Growth of Black Holes: Insights From Obscured Active Galaxies

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

arXiv:0907.1086

by Greene, Jenny E. and Zakamska, Nadia L. and Liu, Xin and Barth, Aaron J. and Ho, Luis C.
Accepted for publication in ApJ, 19 pages, 9 figures

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Simulations of Recoiling Massive Black Holes in the Via Lactea Halo

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

arXiv:0907.0892

by Guedes, Javiera and Madau, Piero and Kuhlen, Micheal and Diemand, Jürg and Zemp, Marcel
23 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication on ApJ

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Competitive feedback in galaxy formation

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

arXiv:0907.1002

by Nayakshin, Sergei and Wilkinson, Mark I. and King, Andrew
To appear in MNRAS Letters

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Globular Clusters and Satellite Galaxies: Companions to the Milky Way

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

arXiv:0906.5370

by Forbes, Duncan A. and Kroupa, Pavel and Metz, Manuel and Spitler, Lee
3 pages, published in Mercury vol. 38, No. 2, page 24. See http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/dforbes/mw.pdf for a full colour version with figures

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Gravitational waves production from stellar encounters around massive black holes

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4923

by De Laurentis, M. and Capozziello, S.
6 pages, 3 figures; Multifrequency Behaviour of High-Energy Cosmic Sources, Vulcano Workshop 2009

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On the dissolution of star clusters in the Galactic centre. I. Circular orbits

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

arXiv:0906.4459

by Ernst, Andreas and Just, Andreas and Spurzem, Rainer
18 pages, 20 figures; accepted by MNRAS

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A theorem on central velocity dispersions

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

arXiv:0906.3673

by An, Jin H. and Evans, N. Wyn
submitted to ApJ

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On post-Newtonian orbits and the Galactic-center stars

Monday, June 15th, 2009

arXiv:0906.2226

by Preto, Miguel and Saha, Prasenjit
21 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal

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Binary dynamics near a massive black hole

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

arXiv:0906.0374

by Hopman, Clovis
Accepted to ApJ

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Gravitational waves from scattering of stellar-mass black holes in galactic nuclei

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

arXiv:0807.2638

by O’Leary, Ryan M. and Kocsis, Bence and Loeb, Abraham
22 pages, 13 figures. MNRAS accepted, in press

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Journey to the M_bh – sigma relation: the fate of low mass black holes in the Universe

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.2262

by Volonteri, Marta and Natarajan, Priyamvada
8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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Probing Quiescent Massive Black Holes: Insights from Tidal Disruption Events

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.1107

by Gezari, Suvi and Strubbe, Linda and Bloom, Joshua S. and Grindlay, J. E. and Soderberg, Alicia and Elvis, Martin and Coppi, Paolo and Lawrence, Andrew and Ivezic, Zeljko and Merritt, David and Komossa, Stefanie and Halpern, Jules and Eracleous, Michael
8 pages, 2 figures, White Paper submitted to the 2010 Decadal Survey Galaxies Across Cosmic Time Science Frontiers Panel

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Probing Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0903.0285

by Miller, M. Coleman and Alexander, Tal and Amaro-Seoane, Pau and Barth, Aaron J. and Cutler, Curt and Gair, Jonathan R. and Hopman, Clovis and Merritt, David and Phinney, E. Sterl and Richstone, Douglas O.
8 pages, Science white paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Survey

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Extreme mass ratio inspiral rates: dependence on the massive black hole mass

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

arXiv:0901.1667

by Hopman, Clovis
Accepted to CQG, special LISA issue

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