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Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category

The central black hole mass of the high-sigma but low-bulge-luminosity lenticular galaxy NGC 1332

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

arXiv:1009.0515

by Rusli, Stephanie P. and Thomas, Jens and Erwin, Peter and Saglia, Roberto P. and Nowak, Nina and Bender, Ralf
15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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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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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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The Globular Cluster/Central Black Hole Connection in Galaxies

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4748

by Harris, Gretchen L. H. and Harris, William E.
7 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. I. Methodology and Results of Pilot Study

Monday, August 30th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4602

by Bennert, Vardha Nicola and Auger, Matthew W. and Treu, Tommaso and Woo, Jong-Hak and Malkan, Matthew A.
27 pages, 19 figures. Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal

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The growth of supermassive black holes fed by accretion disks

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4150

by Armijo, M. A. Montesinos and Pacheco, J. A. de Freitas
10 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to A&A

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A Tidal Disruption Flare in Abell 1689 from an Archival X-ray Survey of Galaxy Clusters

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4140

by Maksym, Peter and Ulmer, Melville P. and Eracleous, Michael
24 pages, including 6 figures and 2 tables Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Spectroscopic Signatures of the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes

Friday, August 27th, 2010

arXiv:1008.4131

by Strubbe, Linda E. and Quataert, Eliot
14 pages, 5 figures; submitted to MNRAS

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Observational characteristics of accretion onto black holes

Monday, August 16th, 2010

arXiv:1008.2287

by Done, Chris
56 pages. To appear in XXI Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics. Ed T Shahbaz, CUP

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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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Broad emission lines for negatively spinning black holes

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4937

by Dauser, T. and Wilms, J. and Reynolds, C. S. and Brenneman, L. W.
7 pages, 6 figures; accepted by MNRAS for Publication

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The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

arXiv:1007.4741

by Haiman, Zoltán
10 pages, 5 figures. Review contribution to the Proceedings of “The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade”, Austin, TX, March 8-11, 2010

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An expanded M_bh-sigma diagram, and a new calibration of active galactic nuclei masses

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

arXiv:1007.3834

by Graham, Alister W. and Onken, Christopher A. and Athanassoula, E. and Combes, Francoise
17 pages. Submitted to MNRAS on July 19

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Precise Black Hole Masses From Megamaser Disks: Black Hole-Bulge Relations at Low Mass

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

arXiv:1007.2851

by Greene, J. E. and Peng, C. Y. and Kim, M. and Kuo, C. Y. and Braatz, J. A. and Impellizzeri, C. M. V. and Condon, J. J. and Lo, K. Y. and Henkel, C. and Reid, M. J.
21 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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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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Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratio Distributions from the SDSS Broad Line Quasar Black Hole Mass Function

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1006.3561

by Kelly, Brandon C. and Vestergaard, Marianne and Fan, Xiaohui and Hopkins, Philip and Hernquist, Lars and Siemiginowska, Aneta
Accepted by ApJ, 25 pages (emulateapj), 11 figures

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MYRIAD: A new N-body code for simulations of Star Clusters

Friday, June 18th, 2010

arXiv:1006.3326

by Konstantinidis, Simos and Kokkotas, Kostas D.
24 pages, 28 figures

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Statistical constraints on binary black hole inspiral dynamics

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

arXiv:1005.5560

by Galley, Chad R. and Herrmann, Frank and Silberholz, John and Tiglio, Manuel and Guerberoff, Gustavo

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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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Supermassive Black Hole Formation at High Redshifts Through a Primordial Magnetic Field

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2942

by Sethi, Shiv K. and Haiman, Zoltán and Pandey, Kanhaiya
submitted to ApJ, 5 emulateapj pages and 5 figures

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A Displaced Supermassive Black Hole in M87

Monday, May 17th, 2010

arXiv:1005.2173

by Batcheldor, D. and Robinson, A. and Axon, D. J. and Perlman, E. S. and Merritt, D.
ApJ Letters accepted

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Detection, Localization and Characterization of Gravitational Wave Bursts in a Pulsar Timing Array

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

arXiv:1004.3499

by Finn, Lee Samuel and Lommen, Andrea N.
43 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ.

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On the transition from nuclear-cluster to black-hole dominated galaxy cores

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.3627

by Bekki, Kenji and Graham, Alister W.
15 page, 5 figures, accepted in ApJL

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Momentum-driven winds and positive AGN feedback

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

arXiv:1004.0857

by Silk, Joe and Nusser, Adi

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Parsec-Scale Localization of the Quasar SDSS J1536+0441A, a Candidate Binary Black Hole System

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.0146

by Wrobel, J. M. and Laor, A.
6 pages; 2 figures; emulateapj.cls; to appear in ApJL

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A correlation between central supermassive black holes and the globular cluster systems of early-type galaxies

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

arXiv:1004.0137

by Burkert, Andreas and Tremaine, Scott
13 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ

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Dynamical shift condition for unequal mass black hole binaries

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4681

by Mueller, Doreen and Grigsby, Jason and Bruegmann, Bernd
10 pages, 14 figures

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Formation of Supermassive Black Holes

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

arXiv:1003.4404

by Volonteri, Marta
To appear in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. The final publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com

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Discovery of Four kpc-Scale Binary AGNs

Friday, March 19th, 2010

arXiv:1003.3467

by Liu, Xin and Greene, Jenny E. and Shen, Yue and Strauss, Michael A.
Submitted to ApJL, Mar 10, 2010

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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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