Black Holes in Pseudobulges: demography and models
Friday, February 3rd, 2012by Shankar, F. and Marulli, F. and Mathur, S. and Bernardi, M. and Bournaud, F.
9 pages, 4 Figures. Accepted by A&A
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Archive for the ‘supermassive black holes’ Category
The evolution of massive black holes and their spins in their galactic hosts
Monday, January 30th, 2012High-redshift formation and evolution of central massive objects II: The census of BH seeds
Friday, January 20th, 2012by Devecchi, B. and Volonteri, M. and Rossi, E. M. and Colpi, M. and Zwart, S. Portegies
12 pages, MNRAS, accepted
Stochastic oscillations of general relativistic disks
Thursday, January 12th, 2012by Harko, Tiberiu and Mocanu, Gabriela
10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Gravitational Recoil From Accretion-Aligned Black-Hole Binaries
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by Lousto, Carlos O. and Zlochower, Yosef and Dotti, Massimo and Volonteri, Marta
17 pages, 10 tables, 14 figures, revtex 4
Accretion Disc Theory since Shakura and Sunyaev
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012by King, Andrew
to appear in proceedings of `The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables’, Memorie Societa’ Astronomica Italiana, 2012 (F. Giovannelli and L. Sabau-Graziati eds.)
Clearing Out a Galaxy
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Zubovas, Kastytis and King, Andrew R.
6 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Masses of Nearby Supermassive Black Holes with Very-Long Baseline Interferometry
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Johannsen, Tim and Psaltis, Dimitrios and Gillessen, Stefan and Marrone, Daniel P. and Ozel, Feryal and Doeleman, Sheperd S. and Fish, Vincent L.
7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, submitted to ApJ
Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA/NGO: Phase Transitions, Cosmic Strings and Other Sources
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Binétruy, Pierre and Bohé, Alejandro and Caprini, Chiara and Dufaux, Jean-François
46 pages, 12 figures
Broken discs: warp propagation in accretion discs
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012by Nixon, Chris and King, Andrew
8 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Chaotic mixing and the secular evolution of triaxial cuspy galaxy models built with Schwarzschild’s method
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012Non-Thermal Insights on Mass and Energy Flows Through the Galactic Centre and into the Fermi Bubbles
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Multiphase, non-spherical gas accretion onto a black hole
Monday, December 26th, 2011by Barai, Paramita and Proga, Daniel and Nagamine, Kentaro
23 pages, 11 figures, submitted. Uploaded version contains low-resolution color figures. Version with high-resolution figures can be found at: http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~barai/AllPages/Images-Movies/BHaccr_MultiPhase.pdf
Late Inspiral and Merger of Binary Black Holes in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity
Monday, December 19th, 2011by Healy, James and Bode, Tanja and Haas, Roland and Pazos, Enrique and Laguna, Pablo and Shoemaker, Deirdre M. and Yunes, Nicolás
4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
A gas cloud on its way towards the super-massive black hole in the Galactic Centre
Thursday, December 15th, 2011by Gillessen, S. and Genzel, R. and Fritz, T. K. and Quataert, E. and Alig, C. and Burkert, A. and Cuadra, J. and Eisenhauer, F. and Pfuhl, O. and Dodds-Eden, K. and Gammie, C. F. and Ott, T.
in press at Nature
Feeding compact bulges and supermassive black holes with low angular-momentum cosmic gas at high redshift
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Dubois, Yohan and Pichon, Christophe and Haehnelt, Martin and Kimm, Taysun and Slyz, Adrianne and Devriendt, Julien and Pogosyan, Dmitry
16 pages, 12 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Do Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes Follow the Same Host-Galaxy Correlations?
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Erwin, Peter and Gadotti, Dimitri
pdflatex, 10 pages, 4 figures. Invited paper for Advances in Astronomy special issue: “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The Growth of the Stellar Seeds of Supermassive Black Holes
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011by Johnson, Jarrett L. and Whalen, Daniel J. and Fryer, Christopher L. and Li, Hui
14 pages, 4 figures; submitted to ApJ
What Drives the Growth of Black Holes?
Monday, December 12th, 2011by Alexander, David M. and Hickox, Ryan C.
42 pages, 8 figures; Extensive review to appear in New Astronomy Reviews
Prospects for Probing the Spacetime of Sgr A* with Pulsars
Monday, December 12th, 2011by Liu, K. and Wex, N. and Kramer, M. and Cordes, J. M. and Lazio, T. J. W.
12 pages, 10 Figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Radio Monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451. I. Jet Energetics and the Pristine Parsec-Scale Environment of a Supermassive Black Hole
Saturday, December 10th, 2011by Berger, E. and Zauderer, A. and Pooley, G. G. and Soderberg, A. M. and Sari, R. and Brunthaler, A. and Bietenholz, M. F.
Submitted to ApJ; 22 pages, 2 tables, 9 figures
Mass Functions of Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
Thursday, December 8th, 2011by Kelly, Brandon C. and Merloni, Andrea
40 pages, 7 figures, review paper accepted for the Advances in Astronomy Special Issue “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
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
The Cosmic History of Black Hole Growth from Deep Multiwavelength Surveys
Monday, December 5th, 2011by Treister, Ezequiel and Urry, C. Megan
33 pages, 20 figures, review paper accepted for the Advances in Astronomy Special Issue “Seeking for the Leading Actor on the Cosmic Stage: Galaxies versus Supermassive Black Holes”
The stochastic background from cosmic (super)strings: popcorn and (Gaussian) continuous regimes
Thursday, December 1st, 2011by Regimbau, Tania and Giampanis, Stefanos and Siemens, Xavier and Mandic, Vuk
21 pages, 11 figures, submitted to PRD
The First Galaxies: Assembly with Black Hole Feedback
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011by Jeon, Myoungwon and Pawlik, Andreas H. and Greif, Thomas H. and Glover, Simon C. O. and Bromm, Volker and Milosavljevic, Milos and Klessen, Ralf S.
17 pages, 14 figures
The Gravitational Wave International Committee Roadmap: The future of gravitational wave astronomy
Monday, November 28th, 2011by 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/
Photon Trapping Enables Super-Eddington Growth of Black-Hole Seeds in Galaxies at High Redshift
Thursday, November 24th, 2011Accretion-Driven Evolution of Black Holes: Eddington Ratios, Duty Cycles, and Active Galaxy Fractions
Thursday, November 17th, 2011by Shankar, Francesco and Weinberg, David H. and Miralda-Escude’, Jordi
27 pages, 16 Figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Constraining Dynamical Dark Energy Models through the Abundance of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes
Thursday, November 17th, 2011by Lamastra, Alessandra and Menci, Nicola and Fiore, Fabrizio and Di Porto, Cinzia and Amendola, Luca
19 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS